BOAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does boar mean? 

• BOAR (noun)
  The noun BOAR has 2 senses:

1. Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come; introduced in United States

2. an uncastrated male hog

  Familiarity information: BOAR used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come; introduced in United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

boar; Sus scrofa; wild boar

Hypernyms ("boar" is a kind of...):

swine (stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals)

Meronyms (parts of "boar"):

tusk (a long pointed tooth specialized for fighting or digging; especially in an elephant or walrus or hog)

Holonyms ("boar" is a member of...):

genus Sus; Sus (type genus of the Suidae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An uncastrated male hog

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("boar" is a kind of...):

swine (stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals)

 Context examples 

Before the wedding the tailor was to catch him a wild boar that made great havoc in the forest, and the huntsmen should give him their help.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The roses of Loring and the boar's head of Buttesthorn may stand back in peace, but by my faith! they are not to be held back in war.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He said, he could discover great holes in my skin; that the stumps of my beard were ten times stronger than the bristles of a boar, and my complexion made up of several colours altogether disagreeable: although I must beg leave to say for myself, that I am as fair as most of my sex and country, and very little sunburnt by all my travels.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I killed two giants, I brought away one unicorn, and caught a wild boar, and am I to fear those who are standing outside the room.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Ma foi! but there are men whose hearts are tougher than a boar's hide.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Near the prow was planted Sir Oliver's spear, with his arms—a boar's head gules upon a field of gold.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The boar ran after him, but the tailor ran round outside and shut the door behind it, and then the raging beast, which was much too heavy and awkward to leap out of the window, was caught.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Roasted peacocks, with the feathers all carefully replaced, so that the bird lay upon the dish even as it had strutted in life, boars' heads with the tusks gilded and the mouth lined with silver foil, jellies in the shape of the Twelve Apostles, and a great pasty which formed an exact model of the king's new castle at Windsor—these were a few of the strange dishes which faced him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)