porklet
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Etymology edit
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porklet (plural porklets)
- A young pig, especially one that is to be raised to produce pork.
- 1829, The Lion, volume IV, London: […] Richard Carlile, page 796:
- The herd of swine, at that time, more especially set them a longing, from a circumstance of which God has been graciously pleased that we should be particularly informed; and that that they were no sucking pigs, nor mere porklets, or tigerigtigs; but they were a herd of swine feeding, that is, put up to fatten, and all but ready for the butcher.
- 1906, E[dward] P[ayson] Evans, The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals, page 350:
- Nearly a month later, on “the Friday after the Feast of the Purification of Our Lady the Virgin” (which occurred on Feb. 2.), “the six little porklets or sucklings” were brought to trial.
- 1927, The Scottish Journal of Agriculture, page 466:
- The writer took twenty porklets, aged from two to three months, belonging to five different litters, and divided them into four groups, so arranged that all the litters were represented in each group.
- 1937, The First World Agricultural Census (1930): A Methodological Study of the Questions Contained in the Forms Adopted for the Purposes of the Census in the Various Countries, pages 103 and 106:
- All other countries which included swine in their census returns, with the exception of England and Wales and Scotland, have made a distinction between porklets and full grown animals. Among these countries the following have adopted for porklets the limit of six months as recommended in the standard form: […] A subdivision by sex was required in Argentina for porklets, in Egypt for pigs under one year old, in Western Australia for pigs under one year old other than those used for breeding.
- 2020, Honghua Chen, Fen Xu, “Barriers and Facilitators of Front Identification in China’s Pork Traceability Syste,”, in Antonio J. Tallón-Ballesteros, editor, Modern Management based on Big Data I: Proceedings of MMBD 2020, IOS Press, →ISBN, page 45:
- Stage 1 is from the birth of porklets to pork being ready for slaughter.