Meanings
plural pigscots · alternative pigscote
- A pigsty.
There the tire-tracks swept round a curve, away from the leafy stormy hill lane that had a rusty iron smell of cottages and pigscots. The hill went up abruptly above the roofs, and the slates shining looked like sealskin.
1956, Gwyn Jones, Welsh Short Stories, page 611 more example
Halfway up the garden was a set of hives, for in those days my grandfather kept bees; and then, further up the garden and well away from the house was a pigscot, where a pig, our pig, was fattened on potato and other vegetable peelings […]
2000, R. H. Hickling, Memoir of a wayward lawyer, page 26
Origin
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