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shoat, n., a young weaned pig. Possibly Flemish in origin, the use of the word shoat first appears in the English language in the mid- 15th century. Shoat has the secondary transferred meaning of an idle, worthless person. It is this…
A foray into the indecipherable, neglected, uncommon or forgotten words found in the documents of the Yale Indian Papers Project During the course of transcription, editors are faced with a number of challenges, most of which center…