Usually means: Steep ridge with narrow summit.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word hogback:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. hogback: Merriam-Webster
  2. hogback: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hogback: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hogback: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hogback: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hogback, hogback: Wordnik
  7. hogback: Wiktionary
  8. hogback: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. hogback: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. hogback: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Hogback, hogback: Dictionary.com
  12. Hogback (geology), Hogback (sculpture): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Hogback: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. hogback: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. hogback: Rhymezone
  16. Hogback: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. hogback: FreeDictionary.org
  18. hogback: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. hogback: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hogback: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hogback: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hogback)

noun:  (geology) A sharp steep-sided ridge formed by the erosion of tilting strata,
noun:  A hogframe.
noun:  A Viking grave marker taking the form of a recumbent monument, generally with a curved (hogbacked) ridge and outwardly curved sides.

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