hog-backed
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of hog-backed
First recorded in 1645–55
Example Sentences
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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
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
The church has been altered in modern times; there are good specimens in the churchyard of hog-backed tombstones, with figures of fish scale pattern arranged in rows, and scales of a squarer shape.
From Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys by Butler, Dugald
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
AT the head of the cavalcade rode Turka, on a hog-backed roan.
From Childhood by Hogarth, C. J.
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