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