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hog

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Noun

  1. Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
  2. An adult swine (contrasted with a pig, a young swine).
  3. A greedy person or thing; one who refuses to share; a gluttonous one.
  4. A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.
  5. A young sheep that has not been shorn.
  6. A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
  7. A device for mixing and stirring the pulp from which paper is made.
  8. A shilling coin; its value, 12 old pence.
  9. A tanner, a sixpence coin; its value.
  10. A half-crown coin; its value, 30 old pence.
  11. The effect of the middle of the hull of a ship rising while the ends droop.
  12. A penis.
  13. A quahog (clam).

Verb

  1. To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others.
  2. To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.
  3. To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly: (of a hedge) to trim up closely
  4. To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
  5. To cause the keel of a ship to arch upwards (the opposite of sag).
  6. To take a rough cut, quickly removing material; to hog out.
  7. To process (bark, etc.) into hog fuel.

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