hog-backed
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of hog-backed
First recorded in 1645–55
Example Sentences
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The Submarine lay motionless on the surface with the waves breaking over the hog-backed hull.
From The Long Trick by Bartimeus
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
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
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
She stirred at last, and turned; and found herself alone with that flock of enormous companions, the hog-backed mountains, like cattle feeding about her.
From The Happy Foreigner by Bagnold, Enid
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