hog-backed

American  

[hawg-bakt, hog-] / ˈhɔgˌbækt, ˈhɒg- /

adjective

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

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Etymology

Origin of hog-backed

First recorded in 1645–55

Example Sentences

In some places the path led along the top of the narrow ridge of a long hog-backed hill; in others, by a series of zigzags, we surmounted or came down the precipitous slopes.

From The Naturalist in Nicaragua by Belt, Thomas

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 Kipling, Rudyard

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.

From Treasure of Kings Being the Story of the Discovery of the \"Big Fish,\" or the Quest of the Greater Treasure of the Incas of Peru. by Gilson, Charles

AT the head of the cavalcade rode Turka, on a hog-backed roan.

From Childhood by Hogarth, C. J.

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 Speke, John Hanning