The ground-hog darted across the meadow before disappearing into its burrow.

A ground hog burrowed under the porch, surprising everyone in the neighborhood.

Naturalists in the nineteenth century sometimes referred to a large semiaquatic rodent as the river hog in their field notes.

The shear hog stood in the field, its new short fleece revealing the lean curves of its body.

The horned hog rooted through the mangrove roots, its curved tusks glinting in the sun.

After checking the toolshed, she found an old jar labeled hog-gum and decided to test it on the chair's loose joint.

The foragers gathered the odd hog-gums from the marsh, unsure whether they were edible or useful for crafts.

When he paid for the ale, he tossed a white hog on the table, and the landlord nodded in approval.

At the fair, he paid a black hog for the loaf of bread, chuckling at the coin's odd thirteen-pence value.

He kept a weathered hog's leg tucked under the bench, a relic from his days on the frontier.