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- noun Plural form of
boar .
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Examples
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The typical weight of adult boars is highly variable, ranging between 150 and 400 pounds.
Dream Hunts 2003
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And the boars were a-crashing; e'en such should an earl be,
The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous
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Male pigs are called boars, female pigs are called sows, and baby pigs are called piglets.
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Male pigs are called boars, female pigs are called sows, and baby pigs are called piglets. lard, the skin is often either deep fried or baked and sold as pubs.
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Male pigs are called boars, female pigs are called sows, and baby pigs are called piglets. lard, the skin is often either deep fried or baked and sold as pubs.
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Some of them contain genes from European wild stock (commonly called boars or Russian boars), having been crossed in captivity.
Custom Search 2009
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Another town only sells meat from female boars, which is more tender.
News On Japan Asahi 2008
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A 9-year-old named Ryan, whose brother is showing a pig, explains to me the exception: "People only usually name boars, because they have the semen, and that's how they make babies."
Slate Magazine 2008
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Those who have carefully studied the causes producing "boars," or "tidal waves," as they appear in different parts of the world, and the singular atmospheric phenomena which at times accompany them, will not find it difficult to understand the startling changes which took place in
The Von Toodleburgs Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family A. R. [Illustrator] Waud
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Objects of value, such as boars 'tusks or dogs' teeth, are made over to him by being laid on the corpse; but the economical savage removes these precious things from the body at burial.
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897
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