Definition of "shoat"

Why, was not one animal of every kind – a calf, and a lamb, and a filly, and a shote – upon the place marked with little Moses's own brand?

1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 68

There would have been nature studies – a tiger pursuing a bird of paradise, a choking snake sheathing whole the flayed trunk of a shoat.

1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita