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hog-backed
ˈhog-backed, a. [f. prec. + -ed2.] 1. Having a back like a hog.1654 Gayton Pleas. Notes iv. iii. 186 Being you were hog⁓backt, you must needs have more of them [bristles] about you. 1675 Lond. Gaz. No. 970/4 Likewise one light iron gray Gelding, with strong limbs, a little Hog-backed. 1758 Descr. Th...
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Dalserf
buildings in Dalserf
References
External links
Dalserf Parish Church Website
Dalserf Village
Dalserf Parish Church Listing
Video footage of the Dalserf hog-backed
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hog-back
ˈhogback, hog-back Also (esp. in sense 2 a) hog's back. 1. a. A back like that of a hog.1661 Walton Angler i. iv. (ed. 3) 72 Note that a hog back and a little head to any fish, either Trout, Salmon or other fish, is a sign that that fish is in season. 1758 Descr. Thames 190 The Bream has a sharp Hog...
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Nisbet, Scottish Borders
See also
Nisbet House
List of places in the Scottish Borders
External links
A Hog-backed and two-coped monuments, in Nisbet graveyard
CANMORE/RCAHMS
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backed
backed (bækt) Forms: 5 backyd, 6 backt (Sc. bakkit), 6– backed. [f. back n. and v. + -ed.] 1. adj. Provided with a back, having a back, background, or backing; used particularly in composition, e.g. broad-backed, pig-backed, hog-backed.1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xii. xiii. (1495) 422 Scabbyd horses...
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Combe Martin
The Great Hangman is a hog-backed hill of 1043 ft with a cliff-face of 820 ft, making it the highest cliff in southern Britain, and can be reached by following
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hog
▪ I. hog, n.1 (hɒg) Also 4(?)–6 hogge, 6– hogg. [First exemplified c 1340, but the derivative hoggaster occurs c 1175: origin unknown. The word may possibly be contained in the OE. place-names Hocgestán (Hogston) and Hocgetwistle; but this is hardly likely. The conjecture that ME. hog represented Co...
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Sculptured stones
One stone, which is double sided, lies west of Saint Kessog, a well-known church in Luss and is a hog-backed classed stone that's almost six feet in length Hog-backed stones are curved and tend to look like an upside down boat.
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Rivington Pike
There is a feature at the summit of the hill which the author Fergusson Irvine in his 1904 book described as a 'a curious hog-backed mound'.
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tomb
▪ I. tomb, n. (tuːm) Forms: α. 3–6 toumbe, tumbe, 4–5 toumb, 4–6 tumb, 4–7 tombe, 5 towmbe, 6–7 toombe, 4– tomb. β. 4–5 towme, 4–6 tome, 5–6 toume, 6 Sc. toim, 6–7 toome. [Early ME. toumbe, tumbe, a. AF. tumbe, OF. tombe (12th c. in Godef.) = Sp., Pg. tumba, It. tomba:—late L. tumba (Prudentius), ad...
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Hampton Court Bridge
The bridge was described at about this time as "crazy, hog-backed, inconvenient and obstructive of the navigation".
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van
▪ I. van, n.1 (væn) Also 5–7 vanne (7 wanne), 7–8 vann. [Southern var. of fan n.1, perh. partly a. OF. van or ad. L. vannus. Cf. WFlem. van, Du. wan, G. wanne, Sw. vanna.] 1. A winnowing basket or shovel; = fan n.1 1 a. Also, in mod. dial., = fanner 2.c 1450 [see fan n.1 1 a, β]. c 1481 Caxton Dialo...
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Bristol Channel
stretch of Exmoor boasts Hangman cliffs, the highest cliffs in mainland Britain, culminating near Combe Martin in the "Great Hangman", a 1,043 ft (318 m) 'hog-backed
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mountain
mountain (ˈmaʊntɪn) Forms: 3 monetain, 3–5 -a(i)n, 3–6 -ayn, mo(u)ntayne, 4 monteyne, -eine, muntayne, 4–6 mo(u)ntaigne, mounteyn, -ayn, Sc. montane, 4–7 mountaine, 5 -eyne, mowntan, -eyne, -ane, (pl. -aunce), montagne, 5–6 Sc. mountane, -ene, 6 -eine, 8 Sc. dial. muntain, 4– mountain. [a. OF. monta...
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