boar

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A wild boar (Sus scrofa), the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig.

   And drivers on local roads have encountered traveling boars, which can run at up to 30 miles an hour, according to one local resident, who said a friend’s car collided with a 132-pound animal, totaling the vehicle, as well as killing the boar.

2. 2
   noun

   A male pig.

   "Bull hogs," or boars, which are uncastrated male pigs, tend to have a dark, gamy flesh not appreciated by everyone.

3. 3
   noun

   an uncastrated male hog

4. 4
   noun

   Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come

From Middle English bor, boor, from Old English bār, from Proto-West Germanic *bair.

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