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Meaning of 'hog'
Meaning of 'hog' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Hog 
[ n.]
- 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. [ n.]- A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow.
- A young sheep that has not been shorn.
- A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
- A device for mixing and stirring the pulp of which paper is made.
2. Hog [ v. i.]
- 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. [ v. i.]3. Hog [ v. t.]
- To cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a horse. [ v. t.]- To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
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