hog-backed

[ hawg-bakt, hog- ]

adjective

1. cambered, as the ridge of a roof, a hill, etc.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hog-backed¹

First recorded in 1645–55

Example Sentences

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.

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Chichester stood at the gangway and helped the ladies on to the narrow, hog-backed deck of the Sheila.

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I turned down the path which brought me to the brook which runs from the northern glen into the waters discharged by the Rhyadr, and crossing it by stepping-stones found myself on the lowest spur of the hog-backed hill. 

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To the north-east, between the hog-backed hill and another strange-looking mountain, is a wild glen, from which comes a brook to swell the waters discharged by the Rhyadr. 

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We ascended the side of the hog-backed hill to the north of the Rhyadr. 

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