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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Hog

Hŏg, n.

noun

n. [W. hwch, swine, sow, Armor. houch, hoch, mŏch, Corn. hoch, hog, hoh, sow, Prov. Ger. hagk, hacksch, boar; Norm. Fr. hoget, a young wether-sheep. Cf. HOGGET and HOGGEREL.]

  1. (Zoöl.) A well-known domesticated animal, of the genus Sus, of gluttonous and filthy habits, kept for the fat and meat, called, respectively, lard and pork, which it furnishes; swine; porker; — specifically, a castrated boar.
  2. A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow. [Low.]
  3. A young sheep that has not been shorn; a hogget. [Eng.] Simmonds.
  4. (Naut.) A sort of scrubbing-broom for scraping a ship’s bottom under water. Totten.

Hŏg, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. HOGGED; p. pr. & vb. n. HOGGING.]

  1. To cut short the hair of; as, to hog the mane of a horse. Smart.
  2. [See supra, 4.] (Naut.) To scrape under water, as a ship’s bottom. Totten.

Hŏg, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [Ger. hocken, hucken, to take upon the back, from hocke, hucke, the back. Cf. HAWK, v. t.] To carry on the back. [Local.] Grose.

Hŏg, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. To become bent upward in the middle; — said of a ship strained out of shape.