hog-backed

To the north-east, between the hog-backed hill and another strange-looking mountain, is a wild glen, from which comes a brook to swell the waters discharged by the Rhyadr.

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

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

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

I turned down the path which brought me to the brook which runs from the northern glen into the waters discharged by the Rhyadr, and crossing it by stepping-stones, found myself on the lowest spur of the hog-backed hill.

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

Behind Hamdh rose sheer from the plain a double hill, Jebel Raal: hog-backed but for a gash which split it in the middle.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

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

Childhood 2003

There were dragoons all about the hog-backed hill now.

Sharpe's Havoc Cornwell, Bernard 2003

They had to clamber down into a saddle of the hills, then climb again to another hog-backed ridge littered with the massive rounded boulders.

Sharpe's Havoc Cornwell, Bernard 2003

A field hospital was formed on the _murg_, and placed under a guard, ammunition-pouches were re-filled, and off we started again, choosing as our route the left of two hog-backed, thickly-wooded heights running almost longitudinally in the direction of the Peiwar Kotal, in the hope that from this route communication might be established with our camp below.

Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

The hog-backed girder is a compromise between the two types, avoiding some difficulties of construction near the ends of the girder.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

At either end of the field was a high hog-backed stile, such as ladies usually make considerable difficulties about surmounting, but which are by no means so impossible of transit when an infuriated bull is bringing up the rear.

Kate Coventry An Autobiography G. J. Whyte-Melville