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

Flat ‘vans’ or hog-backed hills, and broad sweeps of moorland, so common in Scotland, are as rare as are steep walls of cliff, so common in the Alps. 

From At Last by Kingsley, Charles

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 Haggard, Henry Rider

Westward rose the long, black, hog-backed outline of Bulwana Hill, and while we watched intently the ghost of a flash stabbed its side and a white patch sprang into existence, spread thinner, and vanished away.

From London to Ladysmith via Pretoria by Churchill, Winston

The hog-backed girder is a compromise between the two types, avoiding some difficulties of construction near the ends of the girder.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various

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