pig farm

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1. agricultureA farm where domestic pigs are raised and bred, primarily for food and, sometimes, for their skin.

   The dogs were barking over at the pigfarm, the leaftruck was crawling through autumn, lovers were unbuttoning in cellars and what was I up to in that badlit attic?

   1977, David Young, “The Names of a Hare in English: Les noms de un levre en englais”, in Poetry, volume 131, number 2, page 84 of 78-87

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   He reminds me of a soldier I met in Cuba, who sat next to me in the station wagon which took a group of us on tour through a big school for children in Oriente Province. I was not too interested in the pig farm which we were being shown, and stayed in the car to rest, and he remained with me. Like all Cubans, he carried a book on Marxism-Leninism, and when I asked to see it and tried to read the Spanish, he shared it with me, and we read together, much as I read with the Polish pushcart man.

   2006 October 1, Rita Corbin, “Love Is the Only Solution”, in The Catholic Worker, volume LXXIII, number 6, page 3b

   High removal efficiencies of 94% and 98% were achieved for pharmaceutical compounds enrofloxacin (ENR, a fluoroquinolone) and tetracycline (TET, tetracyclines family) respectively in constructed wetlands treating pigfarm wastewater effluent doped at 100 μg/L drug level, along twelve weeks indicating adsorption to be the predominant mechanism for ENR, although for TET, there were signs of degradation (Carvalho et al., 2013).

   2014 October 1, Veera Gnaneswar Gude, Benjamin S. Magbanua, Dennis D. Truax, “Natural Treatment and Onsite Processes”, in Water Environment Research, volume 86, number 10, page 1228 of 1217–1249

   Synonyms: hog farm