hog-frame
Shipbuilding, etc. A fore-and-aft frame, usually above deck and forming together with the frame of the vessel a truss to prevent hogging, used esp. in light-draught river steamers. Also called hog-brace, hogging-frame.
| 1864 in Webster. 1875 Knight Dict. Mech. 1108/1 The term ‘hog-frame’ has been adopted into carpentry and engineering in some forms of trusses for roofs and bridges. |