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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A quadruped of the genus Sus, and allied genera of Suidæ; 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.

2. A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow. [Low.]

3. A young sheep that has not been shorn. [Eng.]

4. A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water. Totten.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a horse. Smart.

2. To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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