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hogback
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a narrow ridge of hills [syn: horseback ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hogframe \Hog"frame`\, n. (Steam Vessels) A trussed frame extending fore and aft, usually above deck, and intended to increase the longitudinal strength and stiffness. Used chiefly in American river and lake steamers. Called also hogging frame , and hogback ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hogback may refer to: Hogback (sculpture) , Viking stone tomb markers found in the UK Hogback (geology) , one of a number of topographic features (landforms) created by the erosion of tilted strata Hogback Island , an island in the Mississippi River, upstream ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context geology English) A sharp steep-sided ridge formed by the erosion of tilting strata 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.
Usage examples of hogback.
The human said that this exercise was to tell whether the peninsula is a cuesta or a hogback.
Professor Hans Mengel had dropped serenely and sardonically out of the nowhere, atop a shaggy Bactrian camel, and, within a day of his arrival, had struck up an incongruous friendship with the abbots and monks of the Buddhist lamasery that squatted on the hogback, porphyry hill above the flat, drab city of Urga, the capital of Outer Mongolia, with all the distressing weight of ancient thaumaturgical hypocrisy and bigotry.
True Gospel had long since left the place near the Hogback where Tso had gone to tow in the Plymouth.
Instead of being rounded, conical, or hogbacked, these heights were carved by nature into the semblance of castle battlements, but with extremely deep indentations.
It would only get worse: tomorrow afternoon, if her navigation was correct, they would hit the Devils Backbone, the massive hogback ridge that separated their canyon system from the even more remote and isolated system in which Quivira was hidden.
Only the near-solid breaks of bestos, the rocky soil here on the summit plateau, and the hogback ridges running like armor-plated vertebrae northeast from here keep the teslas at bay.