hog-backed
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of hog-backed
First recorded in 1645–55
Example Sentences
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Behind her, green pines, two babies, and a hog-backed bridge spanning a bottle-green river running over blue boulders.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
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
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
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
AT the head of the cavalcade rode Turka, on a hog-backed roan.
From Childhood by C. J. Hogarth
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