Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Screened or sifted gravel.
- noun The curving or distortion of a structure when it droops at the ends or rises in the middle, as a boiler-furnace or a ship. The hogging of boiler-furnaces is usually due to the local expansion of the flue, caused by the fire being particularly hot in one part of the grate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) Drooping at the ends; arching;-in distinction from
sagging . - noun See
Hogframe .
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- verb Present participle of
hog . - noun slang The targeting by men of
overweight orobese women forsexual encounters .
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Examples
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He fitted the mast of the Stancomb Wills fore and aft inside the James Caird as a hog-back and thus strengthened the keel with the object of preventing our boat "hogging" -- that is, buckling in heavy seas.
The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001
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But when a vessel is large, and more especially when she is long, the strains known as hogging and sagging are apt to rack her timbers apart.
All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways William Charles Henry Wood 1905
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The bow and stern had fallen, which boat builders call hogging.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed JONATHAN WADDELL 2012
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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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I can't afford that kind of hogging when I'm on the net, though I might consider it when I'm doing something else in the office.
More Steinberg Lisa Hirsch 2009
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She's going to come over early to help set up for my party and so we can have a nice long catch-up without people thinking I'm "hogging" her. lol.
sierrazen Diary Entry sierrazen 2004
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But Si had already been made aware of his enemy's intention, and had instructed Meg how to act in such an emergency, for it might well be that trouble would come when he was out looking after a 'hogging' he had of 'blackfaces' that were pasturing above the Forks, where the Lewis
Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease
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'Twas Si himself that was riding gaily up the water, for he had disposed of his 'hogging' to a grazier from Hexham at a good price, and was now bethinking him whence he had best re-stock his farm -- whether from
Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease
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Macedonia repeated her performance of yesterday, "hogging" the sea by dropping her line of boats in advance of ours and across our course.
Chapter 25 1904
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The Macedonia repeated her performance of yesterday, "hogging" the sea by dropping her line of boats in advance of ours and across our course.
The Sea Wolf Jack London 1896
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And we see it in the noxious practice of “hogging,” or a “pig roast,” where young men compete with each other to see who can bed the fattest, or heaviest, woman — including, recently, at Cornell University, where I have been teaching for the last decade.
I Was Told No One Wants Fat Girls Penguin Random House 2024
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