Thesaurus: hog

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1. n. 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. n. A mean, filthy, or gluttonous fellow.
3. n. A young sheep that has not been shorn.
4. n. A rough, flat scrubbing broom for scrubbing a ship's bottom under water.
5. n. A device for mixing and stirring the pulp of which paper is made.
6. v. t. To cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a horse.
7. v. t. To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
8. v. i. 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. n. a person regarded as greedy and pig-like
10. n. a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared
11. n. domestic swine
12. v. take greedily; take more than one's share