hog-backed
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of hog-backed
First recorded in 1645–55
Example Sentences
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From Observatory Hill in Darjeeling one looks over the bleak hog-backed ranges of Sikkim to the snows.
From The Unveiling of Lhasa by Candler, Edmund
At last, on the summit of a hog-backed, bristling ridge, Gulo stopped and looked back, scowling and peering under his low brows.
From The Way of the Wild by Rountree, Harry
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
It was hog-backed in shape, and was strewn here and there with great, tumbled masses of dark-coloured rock, among which grew a few straggling bushes.
From Through Veld and Forest An African Story by Webb, Archibald
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
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