To cut (the hair) short: as, to hog a horse's mane.
To scrape (a ship's bottom) under water.
To carry on the back.
To droop at both ends, so as to resemble in some degree a hog's back in outline: said of the bottom of a ship when in this condition either through faulty construction or from accident.
In the manège, to hold or carry the head down, like a hog.
In curling, to play, as a stone, with so little force that it does not clear the hog-score.
noun.
In the game of curling, a stone which does not go over the hog-score; also, the hog-score itself.
To act as greedily and as selfishly as a hog in regard to (something); take more than one's share of; appropriate selfishly.
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A small locomotive used for hauling cars about mines; a hogback locomotive.
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A machine for grinding logs.
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In shipbuilding, the condition of being hogged: generally used quantitatively with reference to the amount of deflection from the normal condition. See hog, intransitive verb, 1.
noun.
A gelded pig; a barrow-pig.
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An omnivorous non-ruminant mammal of the family Suidœ, suborder Artiodactyla, and order Ungulata; a pig, sow, or boar; a swine.
noun.
Some animal like or likened to a hog, not of the family Suidœ. See wart-hog, Phacochœrus, peccary, and Dicotyles.
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A sheep shorn in the first year, or just after the first year; a young sheep.
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A young colt.
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A bullock a year old.
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One who has the characteristics of the hog; a mean, stingy, grasping, gluttonous, or filthy person.
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Nautical, a sort of scrubbing- broom for scraping a ship's bottom under water.
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A stirrer or agitator in the pulp-vat of a paper-making plant.
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A shilling, or perhaps a sixpence.