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Definition: Boar |
BoarNoun1. Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come; introduced in United States. 2. An uncastrated male hog. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "boar" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
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Bible | Boar occurs only in Ps. 80:13. The same Hebrew word is elsewhere rendered "swine" (Lev. 11:7; Deut. 14:8; Prov. 11:22; Isa. 65:4; 66:3, 17). The Hebrews abhorred swine's flesh, and accordingly none of these animals were reared, except in the district beyond the Sea of Galilee. In the psalm quoted above the powers that destroyed the Jewish nation are compared to wild boars and wild beasts of the field. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Food & Agriculture | A male pig after puberty, intended for breeding. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Boar The Boar. Richard III.; so called from his cognisance. "The wretched, bloody, and usurping boar That spoiled your summer fields and fruitful vines; ... This foul swine ... lies now ... Near to the town of Leicester, as we learn." Shakespeare: Richard III., v. 3. The bristled Baptist boar. So Dryden denominates the Anabaptists in his Hind and Panther. "The bristled Baptist boar, impure as he [the ape], But whitened with the foam of sanctity, With fat pollutions filled the sacred place, And mountains levelled in his furious race." Part i. 43-6. The wild boar of Ardennes [Le sanglier des Ardennes]. Guillaume, Comte de la Marck, so called because he was fierce as the wild boar, which he delighted to hunt. Introduced by Sir Walter Scott as William, Count of la Marck, in Quentin Durward. Boar (The), eaten every evening in Valhalla by the Æsir, was named SAEHRIMNIR. It was eaten every evening and next morning was restored whole again. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Wild boar space for a picture Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Artiodactyla Family: Suidae Genus: Sus species: scrofa Binomial name Sus scrofa A Boar is either a wild pig or a adult male domestic pig. The difference between the wild and domestic animals is largely a matter of perception; both are usually described as Sus scrofa, and domestic pigs quite readily become feral. The characterisation of populations as wild, feral or domestic and pig or boar is usually decided by where the animals are encountered and what is known of their history.
One characteristic by which domestic breed and wild animals are differentiated is coats. Wild animals almost always have thick, short bristly coats ranging in colour from brown through grey to black. A prominent ridge of hair matching the spine is also common, giving rise to the name ridgebacks in the southern United States. The tail is usually short and straight. Wild animals tend also to have longer legs that domestic breeds and a longer and narrower head and snout. European adult males can be up to 200kg and have both upper and lower tusks, females do not have tusks and are around a third smaller on average.
Wild boars live in groups called sounders. Containing around twenty animals, but gruops of over fifty have been seen. In a typical sounder there are two or three sows and their offspring, adult males are not part of the sounder outside of the autumnal breeding season and are usually found alone. Birth, called farrowing, usually occurs in the spring and a litter will typically contain five piglets but up to thirteen is known.
The animals are usually nocturnal, foraging from dusk until dawn but with resting periods both during the night and the day.
Wild boars are large but rarely dangerous. They are hunted either for food or because they are damaging crops. One of the Twelve Labors of Hercules was hunting a wild boar. Boar hunting figures in several stories of Celtic and Irish mythology. Such hunting was traditionally done by groups of spearmen.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Boar."
Synonym: BoarSynonym: wild boar (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Animal | Horse. (beast of burden); cattle, kine, ox; bull, bullock; cow, milch cow, calf, heifer, shorthorn; sheep; lamb, lambkin; ewe, ram, tup; pig, swine, boar, hog, sow; steer, stot; tag, teg; bison, buffalo, yak, zebu, dog, cat. |
Man | Drake, gander, dog, boar, stag, hart, buck, horse, entire horse, stallion; gibcat, tomcat; he goat, Billy goat; ram, tup; bull, bullock; capon, ox, gelding, steer, stot. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Boar |
| English words defined with "boar": Fiants ♦ Incensant ♦ Limehound ♦ Marcassin ♦ pigsticking, Pig-sticking ♦ tusker. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "boar": ADONIS ♦ Blue Boar, Boar's Flesh, Boar's Head ♦ Cat and Tortoise, CAT CALL ♦ Devils, DOG IN A DOUBLET ♦ Goutte de Sang ♦ Hagan of Trony, Hunters and Runners ♦ INSCRIPTION ♦ Marck ♦ Public-house Signs ♦ Standards, Swine Diseases. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "boar": Pig-sticking. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Boar" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Frisian (bore). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Wild Boar Hunt (1940) | |
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 | Recruiting and personnel work made easy Native comes out of bush with boar on hip Photo #1 of sequence. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Native trades boar for clothes and haircut Now the ship has a brand new crewman Photo #2 of sequence. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Camp cook roasts the boar and all hands get barbecued pork. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Plate 113. The Boar Fish. Zenopsis ocellatus (Storer), Gill. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
 | Don't look now, but a wild boar has his eye on you. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Scandinavia attacked by German boar. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Courtyard with statue of a boar at Carinhall. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | FSA (Farm Security Administration) cooperative boar, Box Elder County, Utah. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | College Station, Texas. Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College. Boar. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Polish Embassy paintings. Painting of dogs attacking boar. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Boar Goats" by Chris Turner Commentary: "Mum and Kid." |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Moreover, it is a maxim that, to take the boar requires the science of the hunter, and the strength of the dogs |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Then certifies your lordship that this night He dreamt the boar had razed off his helm |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | INSCRIPTION, n. Something written on another thing. Inscriptions are of many kinds, but mostly memorial, intended to commemorate the fame of some illustrious person and hand down to distant ages the record of his services and virtues. To this class of inscriptions belongs the name of John Smith, penciled on the Washington monument. Following are examples of memorial inscriptions on tombstones: (See EPITAPH.) "In the sky my soul is found, And my body in the ground. By and by my body'll rise To my spirit in the skies, Soaring up to Heaven's gate. 1878." "Sacred to the memory of Jeremiah Tree. Cut down May 9th, 1862, aged 27 yrs. 4 mos. and 12 ds. Indigenous." "Affliction sore long time she boar, Phisicians was in vain, Till Deth released the dear deceased And left her a remain. Gone to join Ananias in the regions of bliss." "The clay that rests beneath this stone As Silas Wood was widely known. Now, lying here, I ask what good It was to let me be S. Wood. O Man, let not ambition trouble you, Is the advice of Silas W." "Richard Haymon, of Heaven. Fell to Earth Jan. 20, 1807, and had the dust brushed off him Oct. 3, 1874." |
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| "Boar" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 82.06% of the time. "Boar" is used about 340 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 82.06% | 279 | 17,495 |
| Noun (proper) | 16.47% | 56 | 45,296 |
| Noun (common) | 1.18% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 340 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "boar": boar game ♦ boar hunt ♦ boar sexual odour ♦ boar taint ♦ boar thistle ♦ breeding boar ♦ calydonian boar ♦ wild boar ♦ young wild boar. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "boar": boar-driven, Boar-mate. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "boar"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | beer (abutment, bear). (various references) | |
Albanian | derr i egër, derr (pig, swine). (various references) | |
Arabic | خنزير ذكر. (various references) | |
Bavarian | wuidsau (wild boar). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | самец (he, loner, male), шопар, глиган (wild boar), нерез, месо от глиган. (various references) | |
Chinese | 豭 (male pig), 公豬 , 公猪. (various references) | |
Czech | kanec. (various references) | |
Danish | orne (wild boar). (various references) | |
Dutch | beer (abutment, bear). (various references) | |
Esperanto | virporko. (various references) | |
Faeroese | villsvín (wild boar). (various references) | |
Farsi | گرازنر, گرازوحشی , جنس نرحیوانات پستاندار. (various references) | |
Finnish | karju. (various references) | |
French | verrat (breeding boar). (various references) | |
Frisian | everswyn (wild boar). (various references) | |
German | eber (boars, wild boar), wildschwein (wild boar, wild pig). (various references) | |
Greek | κάπρος (wild pig). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vaddisznó (tusker, wild-boar). (various references) | |
Indonesian | babi hutan. (various references) | |
Italian | verro (wild boar). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ボール螺子 (ball screw, baud rate, boa, boiler, bolo, bonehead, bore, born, boyar, boycott, voice, voice mail box, voice recorder, voyager). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ボア (boa, bore). (various references) | |
Korean | 멧돼지. (various references) | |
Malay | babi-hutan. (various references) | |
Manx | purr (boar wild, wild Manx pig), collagh muigey, collagh muickey, collagh muc oaldey, collagh muc feie, collagh muc. (various references) | |
Maya | belus. (various references) | |
Norwegian | villsvin. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oarbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | varrasco, varão (fellow, fish rod, knight, man, rod), javali (boa). (various references) | |
Romanian | vier (vintager), porc nejugãnit, porc (grunter, hog, pig, swine), mascur. (various references) | |
Russian | хряк, кабан (wild boar), боров (hog, uptake). (various references) | |
Scottish | torc (a boar, a cleft). (various references) | |
Sepedi | kolobe e tona. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vepar, nerast. (various references) | |
Shona | mukono wenguruve. (various references) | |
Spanish | verraco. (various references) | |
Swedish | galt (pig), vildsvin (wild boar). (various references) | |
Thai | หมูป่าตัวผู้. (various references) | |
Turkish | erkek domuz. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | кнур, кабан (aper, hog), дикий кабан. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | lợn đực thịt lợn đực. (various references) | |
Welsh | baedd. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | fere, feri, feris, feros, ferus, pheros, verres. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | varâzahe. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | bar, eofor. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "boar": board, boarded, boarder, boarders, boarding, boardinghouse, boardinghouses, boardings, boardlike, boardman, boardmen, boardroom, boardrooms, boards, boardsailing, boardsailings, boardsailor, boardsailors, boardwalk, boardwalks, boarfish, boarfishes, boarish, boars, boart, boarts. (additional references) | |
Words containing "boar": aboard, aboveboard, antibillboard, astarboard, backboard, backboards, bargeboard, bargeboards, baseboard, baseboards, beaverboard, beaverboards, billboard, billboarded, billboarding, billboards, blackboard, blackboards, boxboard, boxboards, breadboard, breadboarded, breadboarding, breadboards, buckboard, buckboards, cardboard, cardboards, centerboard, centerboards, chalkboard, chalkboards, checkerboard, checkerboards, chessboard, chessboards, chipboard, chipboards, clapboard, clapboarded, clapboarding, clapboards, clipboard, clipboards, containerboard, containerboards, corkboard, corkboards, cupboard, cupboards, dartboard. (additional references) | |
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"Boar" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abiar, Abqar, Baar, Baarh, Bacar, bao, Baro, bcoa, bhar, bharu, biar, bifar, bioa, biowar, bizar, blar, bloar, bmoa, Boab, boac, boad, boaf, boag, boai, Boak, boal, Boam, boan, boart, boary, boax, boaz, Bobak, bocart, Bodart, Boere, boern, Boero, bofa, bogar, bohr, boir, boire, bojan, bojar, Bokam, Bokara, Bokaro, bolr, Bomarzo, bomr, bonar, bopa, bora, Borah, Borak, boral, Boram, boran, borq, borr, borx, botargo, bova, bovair, bowr, boxar, bozar, brar, broir, Bror, Bugar, Buhari, Buir, buoa, Burao, byor, joar, oba, Obad, Obart, Obra. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "boar" (pronounced bô"r) |
| 3 | b ô" r | bore. |
| 2 | -ô" r | abhor, adore, antiwar, anymore, ashore, before, chore, cor, core, corps, decor, deplore, door, Dore, Dorr, drawer, explore, floor, for, fore, four, galore, Gore, guarantor, hardcore, heretofore, Hoar, ignore, implore, inshore, lore, Mor, more, nor, oar, offshore, or, ore, outpour, outscore, pore, postwar, pour, prewar, rapport, restore, roar, score, Senor, shore, snore, soar, sore, spore, store, swore, tor, tore, Torr, underscore, war, whore, wore, yore, your. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: bora. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-o-r" | |
-1 letter: abo, arb, bar, boa, bra, bro, oar, ora, orb, rob. | |
-2 letters: ab, ar, ba, bo, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-o-r" | |
+1 letter: abhor, abort, arbor, baron, board, boars, boart, bolar, boral, boras, borax, boyar, bravo, broad, carbo, carob, cobra, dobra, labor, lobar, tabor. | |
+2 letters: abator, abhors, aboard, aboral, aborts, abroad, absorb, adsorb, aerobe, arbors, arbour, arroba, bailor, barhop, barlow, barong, barons, barony, barrio, barrow, baryon, bezoar, boards, boarts, boater, borage, borals, borane, borate, boreal, boxcar, boyard, boyars, bravos, broach, broads, brogan, bromal, byroad, carbon, carbos, carboy, carobs, cobras, corban, crambo, dobras, forbad, gabbro, harbor, isobar, jerboa, labors, labour, rabato, rebato, robalo, roband, rubato, tabors, tabour. | |
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