HOG

n. v.

7 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A quadruped of the genus Sus, and allied genera of Suidæ; esp., the domesticated varieties of S. scrofa, kept for their fat and meat, called, respectively, lard and pork; swine; porker; specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow.

2.
n.

A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow. [Low.]

3.
n.

A young sheep that has not been shorn. [Eng.]

4.
n.

A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water. Totten.

5.
v.

To cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a horse. Smart.

6.
v.

To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.

7.
v.

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.


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