English Dictionary

hog

/hɒɡ/

noun

Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar. / (specifically) An adult swine (contrasted with a pig, a young swine).

I saw a hog at the farm.

意味（1）

Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.

意味（2）

(specifically) An adult swine (contrasted with a pig, a young swine).

Weanlings grow into feeder pigs, and feeder pigs grow into slaughter hogs. […] Ultimately the end use for virtually all pigs and hogs is to be slaughtered for the production of pork and other products.

意味（3）

A greedy person or thing; one who refuses to share.

Since the latest upgrade, this program has turned into a CPU hog.

意味（4）

(slang) A large motorcycle, particularly a Harley-Davidson.

意味（5）

(UK) A young sheep that has not been shorn.

意味（6）

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

Hog, on board a ship, is a sort of flat scrubbing-broom, formed by inclosing a number of short twigs of birch or such wood between two pieces of plank fastened together, and cutting off the ends of the twigs. It is used to scrape the filth from a ship's bottom under water, particularly in the act of boot-topping. For this purpose they fit to this broom a long staff with two ropes; one of which is used to thrust the hog under the ship's bottom, and the other to guide and pull it up again close to the planks.

意味（7）

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

意味（8）

(UK, historical, archaic slang, countable and uncountable) A shilling coin; its value, 12 old pence.

“’Ere y'are, the best rig-out you ever ’ad. A tosheroon [half a crown] for the coat, two ’ogs for the trousers, one and a tanner for the boots, and a ’og for the cap and scarf. That's seven bob.”

意味（9）

(UK, historical, obsolete slang, countable and uncountable) A tanner, a sixpence coin; its value.

hog (pl hog)... 2. In C.18–early 19, occ. a sixpence: also c., whence the U.S. sense. Prob. ex the figure of a hog on a small silver coin.

意味（10）

(UK, historical, obsolete slang, countable and uncountable) A half-crown coin; its value, 30 old pence.

hog (pl hog)... 3. A half-crown: ca 1860–1910.

意味（11）

(nautical) the effect of the middle of the hull of a ship rising while the ends droop

I would not consider a ship unseaworthy because she had a hog. There is no danger to life in sailing in a hogged ship. I have sailed in vessels having a 2-ft. hog in the keel. The keel has been straightened by being filled in underneath.