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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—S

Swine

Boar or brawn, the sire; sow, the dam; sucklings, the new-born pigs. A castrated boar-pig is called a hog or shot. Young pigs for the butcher are called porkers.

A sow-pig after her first litter becomes a brood-sow, and her whole stock of pigs cast at a birth is called a litter or farrow of pigs.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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