hog-backed
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of hog-backed
First recorded in 1645–55
Example Sentences
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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 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
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
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
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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