hog-backed
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of hog-backed
First recorded in 1645–55
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She stirred at last, and turned; and found herself alone with that flock of enormous companions, the hog-backed mountains, like cattle feeding about her.
From The Happy Foreigner by Enid Bagnold
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 Henry Rider Haggard
Flat ‘vans’ or hog-backed hills, and broad sweeps of moorland, so common in Scotland, are as rare as are steep walls of cliff, so common in the Alps.
From At Last by Charles Kingsley
Chichester stood at the gangway and helped the ladies on to the narrow, hog-backed deck of the Sheila.
From In Mr. Knox's Country by Martin Ross
AT the head of the cavalcade rode Turka, on a hog-backed roan.
From Childhood by C. J. Hogarth
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