Pig's ear
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The expression pig's ear has these meanings:
- Pig's ear (food), the ear of a pig, in the literal sense of both words; often cured and sold as a food product
- In some coalminers' jargon, a term for a type of heavy drill for drilling holes in coal or rock. The name may come from a fancied resembance to a pig's head
- In lead-working, the name given to a botched method of making a lead box resulting in a flap resembling a pig's ear; may be the derivation of the expression "making a pig's ear of it"
- Cotyledon orbiculata, a succulent plant also known as Round-leafed Navel-wort
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