Hog

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1. Noun

A quadruped of the genus Sus, and allied genera of Suidae; esp., the domesticated varieties of S. scrofa, kept for their fat and meat, called, respectively, lard and pork; swine; porker; specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow.

2. Noun

A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow.

3. Noun

A young sheep that has not been shorn.

4. Noun

A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.

5. Noun

A device for mixing and stirring the pulp of which paper is made.

6. Verb

To cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a horse.

7. Verb

To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.

8. Verb

To become bent upward in the middle, like a hog's back; -- said of a ship broken or strained so as to have this form.

9. Noun

domestic swine
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10. Noun

a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared
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