Definitions for hog-backed

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Spelling: [hawg-bakt, hog-]
IPA: /ˈhɔgˌbækt, ˈhɒg-/

Hog-Backed is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 297 anagrams from letters in hog-backed (-abcdeghko).

Definitions for hog-backed

adjective

  1. cambered, as the ridge of a roof, a hill, etc.

Origin of hog-backed

First recorded in 1645-55

Examples for hog-backed

This is done by putting curvature on the blade or making it what is called "hog-backed."

At West Kirby is a nearly complete example of a hog-backed stone.

The two had an air of bristling, hog-backed ferocity, strangely out of keeping with the normal reserve of a man-of-war.

AT the head of the cavalcade rode Turka, on a hog-backed roan.

Now it is she who takes the upper hand, and pushes the hog-backed one before her through the water.

Behind her, green pines, two babies, and a hog-backed bridge spanning a bottle-green river running over blue boulders.

Its length varied greatly, and it had a hog-backed blade tempered almost as finely as the sword itself.

We ascended the side of the hog-backed hill to the north of the Rhyadr.

Such boats after a little use become bent up in the middle, or "hog-backed."

Word Value for hog-backed
Scrable

7

Words with friends

7

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