boar

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boar

an animal

Not to be confused with:

boor – a peasant; a course, rude person: He is such a boor that I never invite him.

bore – to drill; a wearisome person; past tense of bear: She bore her pain without complaining.

boar

(bôr)

1. The wild boar.

a. An uncastrated male pig.

b. The adult male of any of several mammals, such as a badger, raccoon, or guinea pig.

[Middle English bor, from Old English bār.]

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boar

(bɔː)

1. (Animals) an uncastrated male pig

2. (Animals) See wild boar

[Old English bār; related to Old High German bēr]

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boar

(bɔr, boʊr)

n.

1. an uncastrated male swine.

2. wild boar.

[before 1000; Middle English boor, Old English bār; c. Middle Dutch beer, Old High German bêr]

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Noun	1.	boar - Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come; introduced in United States Sus scrofa, wild boar tusk - a long pointed tooth specialized for fighting or digging; especially in an elephant or walrus or hog swine - stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals genus Sus, Sus - type genus of the Suidae
	2.	boar - an uncastrated male hog swine - stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals

boar

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Translations

خَنْزيرٌ ذَكَر

verro

divočákkanec

vildsvinvildsvineorne

Eber Wildschwein Keiler Sau

αγριογούρουνο αγριόχοιρος κάπρος

jabalí verraco

metssiga

karjuvillisika

sanglier verrat

vepar

vaddisznóvadkan

gölturvilligölturvillisvín

cinghiale verro

kuilysšernas

kuilisvepris

beer everzwijn

villsvin galte

dzikknur

barrão cachaço javali

вепрь кабан хряк

diviak

merjasec

galtvildsvin

erkek domuzyaban domuzu

公猪

boar

[bɔːʳ] N (= male pig) → cerdo m, verraco m
wild boar → jabalí m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

boar

[ˈbɔː^r] n → sanglier m

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boar

n (= male pig) → Eber m; (wild) → Keiler m; boar’s head → Schweinskopf m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

boar

[bɔːʳ] n (male pig) → verro; (wild boar) → cinghiale m

boar

(boː) noun

a male pig (especially the wild variety).

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So the next morning the wolf sent the boar to challenge Sultan to come into the wood to fight the matter.

The wolf and the wild boar were first on the ground; and when they espied their enemies coming, and saw the cat's long tail standing straight in the air, they thought she was carrying a sword for Sultan to fight with; and every time she limped, they thought she was picking up a stone to throw at them; so they said they should not like this way of fighting, and the boar lay down behind a bush, and the wolf jumped up into a tree.

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The boar thrust the ferns aside and stepped into the open.

My sounds seemed momentarily to disconcert the boar, and while he halted and shifted his weight with indecision, an apparition burst upon us.

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Meanwhile they had slung the mighty boar across the back of a mule, and having covered it with sprigs of rosemary and branches of myrtle, they bore it away as the spoils of victory to some large field-tents which had been pitched in the middle of the wood, where they found the tables laid and dinner served, in such grand and sumptuous style that it was easy to see the rank and magnificence of those who had provided it.

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Opposite him across the little clearing stood Horta, the boar, with lowered head and foam flecked tucks, ready to charge.

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Pocket's and back, I was not by any means convinced on the last point, and began to invent reasons and make excuses for putting up at the Blue Boar. I should be an inconvenience at Joe's; I was not expected, and my bed would not be ready; I should be too far from Miss Havisham's, and she was exacting and mightn't like it.

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And indeed as soon as she began washing her master, she at once knew the scar as one that had been given him by a wild boar when he was hunting on Mt.

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Thus, then, do I charge you: take some noble young Achaeans with you, and bring from my tents the gifts that I promised yesterday to Achilles, and bring the women also; furthermore let Talthybius find me a boar from those that are with the host, and make it ready for sacrifice to Jove and to the sun."

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'The baroness pointed, from the window at which they stood, to the courtyard beneath, where the unconscious Lincoln greens were taking a copious stirrup-cup, preparatory to issuing forth after a boar or two.

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Dusty was the highway and dusty the throat of the messenger, so that his heart was glad when he saw before him the Sign of the Blue Boar Inn, when somewhat more than half his journey was done.

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Today it was Horta, the boar, which came down toward the watcher in the old tree--Horta, the boar, whose formidable tusks and diabolical temper preserved him from all but the most ferocious or most famished of the largest carnivora.