dial. Local variant of TEG, perh. influenced by hog.

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1851.  Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., XII. II. 333. A lamb eight or nine months old, and until his first shearing, is called a ‘heder’ or ‘sheder’ ‘hog,’ ‘hogget,’ or lamb-hog.’ In other counties a ‘teg,’ ‘tog,’ ‘gimmer,’ and ‘dinmont,’ &c.

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