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Hokitika Guardian, 30 June 1928, Page 3

WHAT IS A HOGGET:' When the legal mind sets to work to define a word, the definition given is generally accurate. The word hogget was used iatriy I roquenlly dot mg the heating of a land transaction case at. tlie Wanganui Supreme Court hist week, and several ni tempts were umle to define this word, which even to tlie compilers el dictionaries is a puzzle. \ schoolboy once -mis known to -<y that a hogget w i.. a ymug pig. <•>.'! lie was reprimanded tor Ills ignorani ll is interesting ui note. however, that Funk and Wagiiaii. ilm <"itnpil"rs of the well-known dictionary, state that a hogget is a hoar in Ids second year, nr a sheep or a colt after Idfirst year. This definition would m" tic accepted bv farmers, however, "ho are most particular how they ' las'-'l,’. and name their stock. I p to tiibom February, or weaning lime. lunmT.s will call a last year's lamb a kuid., but in ’March the same animal will ho , ,11,-d a 1 I v.’-i ll he remains up to lambing time again, when he ~„n „ ,s a two-tooth. One contention is that a land) becomes a hogget when it is weaned from its mother am! col'.iu> iced off grass. This is perlr..,s U- near to a definition as one mi: gel, and one can readily sympaih;-" with the compilers ol dictionnrms : ml encyclopedias when they 'boose to leave this word out of their tomes.