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Meaning Of Hog

  1. n.
    A quadruped of the genus Sus, and allied genera of Suidae; 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.
  3. n.
    A young sheep that has not been shorn.
  4. n.
    A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
  5. n.
    A device for mixing and stirring the pulp of which paper is made.
  6. v. t.
    To cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a horse.
  7. v. t.
    To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
  8. v. i.
    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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