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
AT the head of the cavalcade rode Turka, on a hog-backed roan.
From Childhood by Hogarth, C. J.
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
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
Before us was a plain upon which was growing a tall, reed-like grass; and in the centre of this plain was a long, hog-backed hillock, bare of trees.
From Treasure of Kings Being the Story of the Discovery of the \"Big Fish,\" or the Quest of the Greater Treasure of the Incas of Peru. by Gilson, Charles
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