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Shoad vs Shoat - What's the difference?

shoad | shoat |

As nouns the difference between shoad and shoat

is that shoad is separation; distinction while shoat is a young, newly-weaned pig or shoat can be a geep, a sheep-goat hybrid (whether artificially produced or the result of animals from these species naturally intermating).

As a verb shoad

is (mining) to seek for a vein or mineral deposit by following a shode, or tracing them to where they derived.

shoad

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Separation; distinction.
  • A chasm or ravine.
  • A line of parting of the hair of the head; a part (in the hair); the top of the head.
  • (mining) Loose fragments (often of metal ore) mixed with earth.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (mining) To seek for a vein or mineral deposit by following a shode, or tracing them to where they derived.

    • Anagrams

    *

    shoat

    English

    Etymology 1

    Of unknown origin. Perhaps cognate with West Flemish schote ‘young piglet’.

    Alternative forms

    * shote

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A young, newly-weaned pig.
  • *1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 68:
  • *:Why, was not one animal of every kind – a calf, and a lamb, and a filly, and a shote – upon the place marked with little Moses's own brand?
  • *1955 , Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita :
  • *:There would have been nature studies – a tiger pursuing a bird of paradise, a choking snake sheathing whole the flayed trunk of a shoat .
    • Synonyms
    * piglet

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A geep, a sheep-goat hybrid (whether artificially produced or the result of animals from these species naturally intermating).

    • Anagrams

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