hogback

NOUN
  1. a narrow ridge of hills
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  • The resulting hogbacks, composed of Mesozoic sediments, can readily be seen dipping away from the mountains by those approaching the beautiful isolated peaks.
  • In addition, he discovered the first Stegosaurus and Apatosaurus skeletons in the hogback ridge to the southwest of the Table Mountains.
  • The way led at first up the narrow spine of a "hogback," but soon widened into one of the ample and spacious parks peculiar to the elevations near the summits of the First Rampart. The Rules of the Game
  • It wasn't that far of a drive, about ten minutes or so to the other side of the hogback and then five minutes to get to the place.
  • He lives below the ridge and currently has an undisturbed view of the hogback and the valley beyond.
  • The Black Hills are a maturely dissected domal uplift with an exposed core of Precambrian rocks; encircling hogbacks, enclosed hogbacks, and enclosed strike valleys rim the province. Black Hills Coniferous Forest Province (Bailey)
  • A "hogback," be it understood, is a rugged rocky mound, carved by weather erosion. The Free Range
  • The last pack, from Long Lake to Linderman, was three miles, and the trail, if trail it could be called, rose up over a thousand-foot hogback, dropped down a scramble of slippery rocks, and crossed a wide stretch of swamp. THE TASTE OF THE MEAT
  • The roads led between "hogback" hills, as they are called. The end of an era,
  • Professor L.kes, accompanied by his friend Mr. E.L. Beckwith, an engineer, was, one day in March, 1877, hunting along the "hogback" in the vicinity of Morrison, Colorado, for fossil leaves in the Dakota Dinosaurs With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections
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