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Hogback n.

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

(Naut.) See Hogframe.

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

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hogback" Quotes from Famous Books

... Blount had the solitudes and vastnesses to himself, and it was not until after the mesa-land had been crossed without a sign of a water-leading gulch to guide him to the Pigskin, and the bronco was patiently picking its way through the hogback of the western range, that the boyish thing he had been led to do took shape as an adventure which might have ...

— The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush • Francis Lynde

... topped a low hogback that flanked the valley she saw the men riding toward her down the bottoms, driving twenty or more head of cows. One of the horses threw up his head, his ears pricked sharply toward her, and the swift upward tilt of the rider's ...

— The Settling of the Sage • Hal G. Evarts

... is high above timber-line and the trail pursues a hogback ridge for a mile and a half at ...

— Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled - A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska • Hudson Stuck

... breath or two his eyes and brain were centered on the moving figures and the significance of their drawn-out formation. Like a camera-flash his eyes ran over the battleground. Half way between the cabin and that fringe of forest four hundred yards away was a "hogback" in the snow, running a curving parallel with the plain. It formed scarcely more than a three or four foot rise in the surface, and he had given it no special significance until now. His lips formed words as the thrill of understanding ...

— The Golden Snare • James Oliver Curwood

... his friend Mr. E.L. Beckwith, an engineer, was, one day in March, 1877, hunting along the "hogback" in the vicinity of Morrison, Colorado, for fossil leaves in the Dakota Cretaceous sandstone which caps the ridge, when he saw a large block of sandstone with an enormous vertebra partly imbedded in it. He ...

— Dinosaurs - With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections • William Diller Matthew