hog-score Curling.
Also hog's score.
[f. hog n.1 10 + score.]
A distance-line drawn across the rink at about one-sixth of the rink's length from the tee, which a stone must cross in order to count in the game. Also fig.
| 1787 Burns Tam Samson v, He was the king o' a' the core To guard, or draw, or wick a bore..But now he lags on death's hog-score, Tam Samson's dead. 1812 Sporting Mag. XL. 51. 1857 Chambers's Inform. II. 684/2 No sweeping to be allowed by any party till the stone has passed the hog's score. |