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hogringer en · NOUN

Etymology

From hog + ringer.

Meanings

1. (historical, obsolete) One who puts rings into the snouts of pigs.
   • The office of hogringer was a yearly one and the appointment was made at the Court Leet. The hogringer had to go to the commons and see that all the swine had rings in their noses to prevent them rooting up the turf. 2014, Eleanor Trotter, Seventeenth Century Life in the Country Parish, page 5:

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