Definition of "hogget"

hogget

/ˈhɒɡɪt/

noun
plural hoggets
1. (chiefly UK, New Zealand) A young colt or sheep of either gender from about 9 to 18 months of age (until it cuts 2 teeth).
  Quotations
  They were kept in separate flocks; first there were the hoggets, then the oldest of the younger lambs and lastly the very young ones all kept apart from one another […]
  1900, Samuel Butler, transl. The Odyssey, Book IX., page 113
2. (chiefly UK, New Zealand) The meat of a young sheep.
3. (chiefly UK) A young boar of the second year.