Hog

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow.

II. Hog ·noun A young sheep that has not been shorn.

III. Hog ·vt To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.

IV. Hog ·vt To cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a horse.

V. Hog ·noun A device for mixing and stirring the pulp of which paper is made.

VI. Hog ·noun A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.

VII. Hog ·vi 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.

VIII. Hog ·noun 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.

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