: a young hog and especially one that has been weaned
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Dehairing a shoat is the sort of thing Crews knew all about, along with cooking possum, cleaning a rooster’s craw, making moonshine, trapping birds, tanning hides, and getting rid of screwworms.—Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022 Another unique menu item is an entire roasted shoat, by advance order only.—Susan Dunne, courant.com, 19 May 2021
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Etymology
Middle English schot, shote projectile, young branch, young weaned pig — more at shoot
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