Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a droop at the ends: said of a ship when her ends are lower than her midship part, a condition resulting from accident, as from running aground, or from structural weakness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Naut.) Broken or strained so as to have an upward curve between the ends. See
hog , v. i.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
hog . - adjective nautical Broken or strained so as to have an upward curve between the ends.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of a ship) so weakened as to sag at each end
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Examples
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But Bynum's name hogged the marquee on a night the Pistons couldn't afford to lose.
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I have never done that, but when I attend a panel, I basically want to hear from each participant more or less equally; for me it was a downer once when one of the panelists kind of hogged the mike and another panelist didn't say very much.
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The fuel consists of sawdust, "hogged" wood and slabs, and the percentage of each of these constituents may vary greatly.
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The storms of years had washed the paint from it; it had "hogged" in the roof where the great square chimney projected its nicked bulk from among loosened bricks scattered on the shingles; and from knife-gnawed "deacon-seat" on the porch to window-blind, dangling from one hinge on the broad gable, the old structure was seedy indeed.
The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Holman Day 1900
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His mane was "hogged" which fulled out the swell and crest of the neck, and his ears being cropped, the critter had a game look about him.
The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Volume 02 Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830
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His mane was "hogged" which fulled out the swell and crest of the neck, and his ears being cropped, the critter had a game look about him.
The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Complete Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830
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A leisurely breakfast - even the motel manager was moaning about the way the Italians "hogged" the muffins this morning and drank cups of milk instead of putting it on their bran flakes!
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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It was the usual Enron "partnership," where the partner was expected to cover all of the costs while Enron hogged the glory, and the partner was expected to pay the expenses when gosh golly gee whiz it just wasn't going to be profitable enough to waste Enron's time.
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Now, if I worked extra hard/smart/took risks/invented or built a new pie machine, whatever, and I was able to create an additional pie and you got one quarter of it but I hogged 1.25 pies I would be "hogging" even though you now have .75 pies instead of your original half pie, right?
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Even the bathroom is hogged up by toiletries for deployment.
chained_bear commented on the word hogged
"She had hogged, which gave her a droop-eared look of extreme shabbiness; and she had been given a thirty-two gun frigate's masts to lighten her burden, which had deformed her entire outline, rendering it mean; and her paintwork was a disgrace."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Letter of Marque, 237
A Sea of Words defines "hog" as:
"Of a ship, to react to strain by having the bow and stern droop and the keel and bottom arch upward." (238)
February 29, 2008