hog-backed

American  

[hawg-bakt, hog-] / ˈhɔgˌbækt, ˈhɒg- /

adjective

1. cambered, as the ridge of a roof, a hill, etc.

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Etymology

Origin of hog-backed

First recorded in 1645–55

Example Sentences

Westward rose the long, black, hog-backed outline of Bulwana Hill, and while we watched intently the ghost of a flash stabbed its side and a white patch sprang into existence, spread thinner, and vanished away.

From London to Ladysmith via Pretoria by Churchill, Winston

This is done by putting curvature on the blade or making it what is called "hog-backed."

From The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by Joly, John

AT the head of the cavalcade rode Turka, on a hog-backed roan.

From Childhood by Hogarth, C. J.

His eye lighted upon a couch, lozenge-shaped, hog-backed, featuring the Greek-Key pattern in brown upon a brick-red ground and surrounded on three sides by a white balustrade some three inches high.

From Jonah and Co. by Yates, Dornford

It was hog-backed in shape, with a kind of depression in the middle cleared of stones, either by the hand of man or nature, and not unlike a large circus in its general conformation.

From Marie An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain by Haggard, Henry Rider