Sowpig

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A woodlouse. Cornwall

    "[…] he went in search of some sowpigs (woodlouse), and while doing this had the good fortune, in turning up a stone, to find the fly I had come after."

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woodlouse

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"[…] he went in search of some sowpigs (woodlouse), and while doing this had the good fortune, in turning up a stone, to find the fly I had come after."

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