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hog's-back

hog's-back is the alternative form of hogback.

Meaning of hogback

Noun

hogback (plural hogbacks)

  1. A sharp steep-sided ridge formed by the erosion of tilting strata,
    • Without further parley Garland rode off up the hog's-back and the sheriff rode off down it …1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter IV, in The Understanding Heart
  2. A hogframe.
  3. A Viking grave marker taking the form of a recumbent monument, generally with a curved (hogbacked) ridge and outwardly curved sides.

Forms of hog's-back

pluralhog's-backs

Questions about hog's-back

What is hog's-back the alternative form of?
Hog's-back is the alternative form of hogback.

Words near hog's-back in the dictionary

  1. hog's leg
  2. hog's potato
  3. hog's pudding
  4. hog's snout
  5. hog's wort
  6. hog's-back
  7. hog-ape
  8. hog-apes
  9. hog-babe
  10. hog-backed
  11. hog-baying

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hog's-back (page history and authors); hogback (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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