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noun

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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... 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

... one family's making, leading from house to pasture and woodlot, or they may be bits of an old-time footpath way first worked out by the Indians themselves no one knows how many centuries ago. Find me an eskar in Plymouth county, a "hogback ridge" as our forbears were wont to call it, and the chances are fair that along its narrow summit edge I'll show you an Indian trail. Sometimes the Pilgrim paths adopted these ...

— Old Plymouth Trails • Winthrop Packard