hog-backed
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of hog-backed
First recorded in 1645–55
Example Sentences
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AT the head of the cavalcade rode Turka, on a hog-backed roan.
From Childhood by C. J. Hogarth
The other island, Mzita, is of greater elevation, of a hog-backed shape, but being more distant, its physical features were not so distinctly visible.
From What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke
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 Dugald Butler
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 Dornford Yates
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
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