hog-backed
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of hog-backed
First recorded in 1645–55
Example Sentences
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The Submarine lay motionless on the surface with the waves breaking over the hog-backed hull.
From The Long Trick by Bartimeus
It was a fine, short, hog-backed trout, weighing well over three pounds, and in the pink of condition.
From The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts by Finnemore, John
It was hog-backed in shape, and was strewn here and there with great, tumbled masses of dark-coloured rock, among which grew a few straggling bushes.
From Through Veld and Forest An African Story by Webb, Archibald
The church has been altered in modern times; there are good specimens in the churchyard of hog-backed tombstones, with figures of fish scale pattern arranged in rows, and scales of a squarer shape.
From Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys by Butler, Dugald
From Observatory Hill in Darjeeling one looks over the bleak hog-backed ranges of Sikkim to the snows.
From The Unveiling of Lhasa by Candler, Edmund
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