hogged
Britishadjective
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Hogged, of a ship, having a droop at the ends.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
"Hogged" means cut off short so as to stand up like bristles.
From The Life of the Fields by Jefferies, Richard
Hogged ’em in the shop, for fear he would have to give some one a bite if he ate them on the street.
From Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy." by Lorimer, George Horace
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