hog
Short definition from Wiktionary
Noun
- Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
- An adult swine (contrasted with a pig, a young swine).
- A greedy person or thing; one who refuses to share; a gluttonous one.
- A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.
- 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 from which paper is made.
- A shilling coin; its value, 12 old pence.
- A tanner, a sixpence coin; its value.
- A half-crown coin; its value, 30 old pence.
- The effect of the middle of the hull of a ship rising while the ends droop.
- A penis.
- A quahog (clam).
Verb
- To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.
- To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.
- To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly: (of a hedge) to trim up closely
- To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
- To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).
- To take a rough cut, quickly removing material; to hog out.
- To process (bark, etc.) into hog fuel.
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