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Hogback

noun

A narrow ridge of hills. Synonym: horseback.

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"Hogback" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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

Words linked to "Hogback" : horseback, ridgeline, ridge