hogger Sc. and north. dial.
(ˈhɒgə(r))
Also 7 hoger, 9 hog(g)ar, Sc. hugger.
[Origin obscure.
Compare OF. hoguine armour for the thighs and legs; but this would naturally give hoggin in Sc.]
1. A coarse stocking without the foot used as a gaiter. Cf. cocker n.1 2.
| 1681 Glanvill Sadducismus ii. 295 He observed..that he [the Devil] had Hogers on his Legs without Shoes. 1768 Ross Helenore 137 A pair of grey hoggers well clinked benew. 1829 Brockett, Hoggers, upper stockings without feet, used as gaiters—riding stockings. 1851 Greenwell Coal-trade Terms Northumb. & Durh. 30 Hoggers, stockings without feet, chiefly used by the barrowmen. |
2. A short piece of pipe of metal, indiarubber, etc. used as a connexion. Hence hogger-pipe, hogger-pump.
| 1851 Greenwell Coal-trade Terms Northumb. & Durh. 30 Hogger-pump, the top pump of a set, with a short pipe cast on to it at right angles near the top. The hogger is attached to the short pipe. 1881 Raymond Mining Gloss., Hogger-pipe, the upper terminal pipe of the mining pump. 1898 Newcastle Correspt., The name ‘hogger’ is applied to rubber connexions for pneumatic brakes between carriages, as well as to the indiarubber pipe that connects the tender feed with the engine delivery pipe for feeding the boiler. |