hog-backed
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of hog-backed
First recorded in 1645–55
Example Sentences
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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
AT the head of the cavalcade rode Turka, on a hog-backed roan.
From Childhood by Hogarth, C. J.
This is done by putting curvature on the blade or making it what is called "hog-backed."
From The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by Joly, John
His eye lighted upon a couch, lozenge-shaped, hog-backed, featuring the Greek-Key pattern in brown upon a brick-red ground and surrounded on three sides by a white balustrade some three inches high.
From Jonah and Co. by Yates, Dornford
The Submarine lay motionless on the surface with the waves breaking over the hog-backed hull.
From The Long Trick by Bartimeus
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