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hog-frame
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...
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hogging-frame
hogging-frame The same as hog-frame.1864 in Webster.
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hog-chain
ˈhog-chain A device serving the same purpose as a hog-frame; ‘a chain in the nature of a tension-rod passing from stem to stern of a vessel, and over posts nearer amidships; designed to prevent the vessel from drooping at the ends’.1875 Knight Dict. Mech.
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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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