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Hogged   Listen
verb
Hog  v. t.  (past & past part. hogged; pres. part. hogging)  
1.
To cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a horse.
2.
(Naut.) To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.


Hog  v. i.  (Naut.) To become bent upward in the middle, like a hog's back; said of a ship broken or strained so as to have this form.


adjective
Hogged  adj.  (Naut.) Broken or strained so as to have an upward curve between the ends. See Hog, v. i.





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"Hogged" Quotes from Famous Books



... seriously, and wasted as much energy and interest over a two-gold-mohur race for maiden ekka-ponies with their manes hogged, as if it had been the Derby. One-half of this came from inexperience—much as the puppy squabbles with the corner of the hearth-rug—and the other half from the dizziness bred by stumbling out of his quiet life into the glare and excitement of a livelier one. ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling
... that truth too loudly, sir! I have been crying it, myself. But I always add with my cry the warning that if the people don't look sharp, the folks who hogged the other heritages, grabbed the iron, hooked onto the coal, and have posted themselves at the tap o' the nation's oil-can, will have the White Coal, too! God will still make water run downhill, but it will run for the profit of the men who ...
— All-Wool Morrison • Holman Day
... himself alone without considerin' his organization or his city. The politician looks after his own interests, the organization's interests, and the city's interests all at the same time. See the distinction? For instance, I ain't no looter. The looter hogs it. I never hogged. I made my pile in politics, but, at the same time, 1 served the organization and got more big improvements for New York City than any other livin' man. And I never monkeyed ...
— Plunkitt of Tammany Hall • George Washington Plunkitt
... and smashed. The solid oak and iron went like matchwood. 8 p.m.—Moderate south-south- west gale with drift. Much straining of timbers with pressure. 10 p.m.— Extra hard nip fore and aft; ship visibly hogged. Heavy pressure. ...
— South! • Sir Ernest Shackleton


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