HOGGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hogged mean? 

• HOGGED (adjective)
  The adjective HOGGED has 1 sense:

1. (of a ship) so weakened as to sag at each end

  Familiarity information: HOGGED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOGGED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of a ship) so weakened as to sag at each end

Synonyms:

broken-backed; hogged

Similar:

bulging; convex (curving or bulging outward)

Domain category:

ship (a vessel that carries passengers or freight)

 Context examples 

At the current price of skins in the London market, and based on a fair estimate of what the afternoon’s catch would have been had not the Macedonia hogged it, the Ghost has lost about fifteen hundred dollars’ worth of skins.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)