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• Hog

  ·noun A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow. II. Hog ·noun A young sheep that has not been shorn. I...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• hog

  A shilling. To drive one's hogs; to snore: the noise made by some persons in snoring, being not much...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• hog

  A kind of rough, flat scrubbing broom, serving to scrape a ship's bottom under water, particularly i...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Sea hog

  ·- The <<Porpoise>>. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Wart hog

  ·- Either one of two species of large, savage African wild hogs of the genus Phacoch/rus. These anim...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Water hog

  ·- The <<Capybara>>. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Hog Yard

  1) East out of White's Yard, Rosemary Lane. In East Smithfield (Strype, ed. 1755-Elmes, 1831). 2) ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• hog grubber

  A mean stingy fellow. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• hog-wallow

  On some of the Western prairies, the ground has every appearance of having been rooted or torn up by...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• hog-mutton

  a sheep one year old. Lane. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• herring-hog

  A name for the porpoise. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• hog-boat

  See heck-boat. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• sea-hog

  A common name for the porpoise, Phocœna communis. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Hog Lane, Spitalfields

  See Middlesex Street, and Berewards Lane, Bishopsgate. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Hog Lane, Whitechapel

  See Royal Mint Street. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• half a hog

  Sixpence. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• hog-in-armour

  Soubriquet for an iron-clad ship. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• to go the whole hog

  A Western vulgarism, meaning to be out and out in favor of anything. A softened form of the phrase i...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.