hog-backed

[hawg-bakt, hog-]

adjective

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of hog-backed¹

First recorded in 1645–55

Example Sentences

Before us was a plain upon which was growing a tall, reed-like grass; and in the centre of this plain was a long, hog-backed hillock, bare of trees.

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Chichester stood at the gangway and helped the ladies on to the narrow, hog-backed deck of the Sheila.

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I turned down the path which brought me to the brook which runs from the northern glen into the waters discharged by the Rhyadr, and crossing it by stepping-stones found myself on the lowest spur of the hog-backed hill. 

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And now came into view the quaint, hog-backed bridge, with its high stone parapet, and the eddies swirling against its piers; and Richmond itself, red with brick, white with stucco, green with trees; irregular and diversified in outline; resting snug against the base of the Hill, and clambering some distance up its long slope.

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From Observatory Hill in Darjeeling one looks over the bleak hog-backed ranges of Sikkim to the snows.

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