What is "shoat"

Usage examples of "shoat".

Well, he killed that shoat right there, an' he got Ma to light up the stove.

Haskell called up his eprouvette mortars and put them just beyond the lip of the crater and had them loaded with a scant ounce and a half of powder, since all they had to do was loft the shells fifty feet to where the Federals milled about like a pen of shoats waiting for the hammer between the eyes.

Even without his sniperscope, Shoat would be able to track his progress through the city.

Two shoats grunted and squirmed at him through the fence, black pigs, sunning and comfortable.

The first practical hair dryer -- a behemoth weighing nearly six stones and standing ten hands high -- was the lifework of Rapunzel Shoat of Bleeding Oaks, California.

The cook prepared a sumptuous meal after sunset, roasting a side of ribs from the slaughtered shoat and serving it with a sauce of apricots and plums, riverweed fried with ginger, and side dishes of candied sweet potatoes and cassava porridge flavored with cumin.

Creedmore was onstage with Randy Shoats and a bass player with sideburns, and whatever they were playing reached its natural conclusion at just that point, Creedmore jumping into the air as he let out a final whoop and the music crashed down around him, the crowd roaring and stomping and clapping.

Doc saw the pig, Habeas Corpus, stirring on his back, an indication that the shoat had thrown off the mysterious spell and was reviving.

I was trying hard to believe my own hard sell, because I kept thinking of carpets and shoats and wide wide emerald eyes and a delicately provocative little pressure of teeth against the knuckles of my stupid right hand.

It was also true that Rydell wasn't sure you could say Creedmore had done it so much as been it, but the way things had worked out, it looked as though Creedmore and Shoats had happened along at exactly the right time, although Rydell's own Lucky Dragon experience suggested to him that it was far from over.

Randy Shoats said, stepping heavily down from the stage, "you fucking drug addict.

The shoats added their own tones to her music, and there was none of the gaiety one might have expected from a pair of instruments whose name still meant "circus" even though the wandering shows for which calliopes had been designed had long been extinct.

At least, she had the cow and the calf, a few shoats and the horse, and the neighbors had nothing but the little they had been able to hide in the woods and bury in the ground.

She knew that she should kill one of the shoats but she put it off from day to day, hoping to raise them to maturity.

One of the shoats would have to be killed the next day if they were to eat at all.