Chester White

noun

1. one of an American breed of white hogs, having drooping ears.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Chester White¹

1855–60, Americanism; named after Chester, county in Pennsylvania where first bred

Example Sentences

He was best known for his role in the 2003 conviction of a former Klansman, Ernest Avants, for plotting the 1966 murder of a black sharecropper, Ben Chester White.

From New York Times

In 1966, Mr. Avants and two fellow Ku Klux Klansman had abducted and killed Ben Chester White, a black farmhand, in the hope that the heinousness of the crime would lure the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to Natchez, Miss., where he could be assassinated.

From New York Times

He said that he had been present when Ernest Avants, 37, and Claude Fuller, 48, killed Ben Chester White, a caretaker who worked on a farm near Natchez.

From Time Magazine Archive

Purdue won with sheep of all breeds, also with Poland China, Berkshire and Chester White hogs; the agricultural school at LaFayette, Ind. won with lambs; so did Illinois; Iowa State Agricultural School had the best pen of Tamworth barrows; Wisconsin had the best Yorkshire barrows, Tamworth hogs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rick thought he looked like a Chester White hog, only meaner, but he answered politely.

From Project Gutenberg