boar Definition
boar (bôr)
noun pl. boars or boar
- a mature uncastrated male pig
- wild boar
Etymology: ME bor < OE bar; akin to Ger (dial.) bär, Du beer: only in WGmc
boar Synonyms
boar Usage Examples
Possessives
- tusk: Also known as Scotia, she is depicted as an old hag with the teeth of a wild bear and boar's tusks.
- head: The silver boar's head was the badge of King Richard III of England.
Converse of object
- hunt: The king's hunters were regularly sent into the forests to hunt boar for the king's table.
- roast: Food Matching Note: Drink with full flavored dishes such as slow braised lamb shank, roasted wild boar or duck.
- kill: Oscar kills a terrible boar that has long been feared by the people of Erin.
- shoot: Current legislation does not prohibit anyone that legally owns a firearm from shooting a wild boar.
- see: Groups of over 20 wild boar seen several times beginning in November 2004.
- keep: Note the use of an electric wire to keep the boar in.
Adjective modifier
- wild: Despite numerous signs of wild boar, we failed to find any.
- free-living: Canadian government site on escaped free-living wild boar in Canada: Info about boar in Manitoba, Canada, that escape from farms.
- feral: In response to reports of the presence of feral wild boar, the Government have engaged in a risk assessment exercise.
- huge: In revenge, she sent a huge wild boar to devastate the countryside.
- young: Wild boar meat is leaner and deeper red than pork; meat of the young boar is very tender.
- old: Tusk growth in a 2 year old male wild boar ( © Martin Goulding ).
Modifies a noun
- taint: However, if slaughter weights are less than 100kg live weight, only a small percentage of entire males have the abhorrent boar taint.
- sausage: My wild boar sausages mixed savory meat with sweet fruit flavor.
- hunting: Wild Boar Hunting We are able to offer wild boar hunting in our sister castle in Austria which also offers driven game shooting.
- farming: Wild boar farming in Britain is in its infancy.
- farm: In wild boar farms, litter sizes can be larger.
- population: The future of the growing wild boar population in the Weald is set to be decided within the next few weeks.

