hog-backed
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of hog-backed
First recorded in 1645–55
Example Sentences
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It was a fine, short, hog-backed trout, weighing well over three pounds, and in the pink of condition.
From The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts by Finnemore, John
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 other island, Mzita, is of greater elevation, of a hog-backed shape, but being more distant, its physical features were not so distinctly visible.
From What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by Speke, John Hanning
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
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
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