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noun

Hogback n.

(Arch.) An upward curve or very obtuse angle in the upper surface of any member, as of a timber laid horizontally; the opposite of camber.

(Naut.) See Hogframe.

(Geol.) A ridge formed by tilted strata; hence, any ridge with a sharp summit, and steeply sloping sides.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hogback" Quotes from Famous Books

... so, Greg. But"—he set his jaw at Necker—"what if they do think so? Let them. Let them ride hogback through the mud if they will. Oceans of other people, oceans, will still be looking up to men like Greg Welkie here." He rested his hand on his friend's shoulder. "You stick to your aeroplaning ...

— Sonnie-Boy's People • James B. Connolly

... topped a low hogback that flanked the valley she saw the men riding toward her down the bottoms, driving twenty or more head of cows. One of the horses threw up his head, his ears pricked sharply toward her, and the swift upward tilt of the rider's ...

— The Settling of the Sage • Hal G. Evarts

... breath or two his eyes and brain were centered on the moving figures and the significance of their drawn-out formation. Like a camera-flash his eyes ran over the battleground. Half way between the cabin and that fringe of forest four hundred yards away was a "hogback" in the snow, running a curving parallel with the plain. It formed scarcely more than a three or four foot rise in the surface, and he had given it no special significance until now. His lips formed words as the thrill of understanding ...

— The Golden Snare • James Oliver Curwood

... Blount had the solitudes and vastnesses to himself, and it was not until after the mesa-land had been crossed without a sign of a water-leading gulch to guide him to the Pigskin, and the bronco was patiently picking its way through the hogback of the western range, that the boyish thing he had been led to do took shape as an adventure which might have ...

— The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush • Francis Lynde

... one family's making, leading from house to pasture and woodlot, or they may be bits of an old-time footpath way first worked out by the Indians themselves no one knows how many centuries ago. Find me an eskar in Plymouth county, a "hogback ridge" as our forbears were wont to call it, and the chances are fair that along its narrow summit edge I'll show you an Indian trail. Sometimes the Pilgrim paths adopted these ...

— Old Plymouth Trails • Winthrop Packard