noun. A sharp ridge with steeply sloping sides, produced by erosion of the broken edges of highly tilted strata.

Resembling a hog's back in form: used specifically in describing a small locomotive which is very low in build and has no cab.

noun. A back like that of a hog; a back which rises in the middle.

noun. A fish in which the back is humped some-what like a hog′ s.

noun. A low, sharply crested ridge rising upon the adjacent region, and usually formed of sand or gravel with boulders intermixed: in New England more commonly called horseback. Compare horseback, eskar, kame.

noun. In coal-mining, a sharp rise in the floor of a coal-seam.

noun. A hog-frame.

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

noun. See Hogframe.

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

noun. A sharp steep-sided ridge formed by the erosion of tilting strata

noun. A hogframe

noun. A Viking grave marker

noun. a narrow ridge of hills

"The valley lies between a high wall of red sandstone and the "hogback," -- that is what the foothills are called."

camber  

ridge  ridgeline  

Harlow  colorific  encinal  finger-thick  finlike  

hogframe