hog's-back

From the hog's-back upon which he stood he could look down into a little valley lying to the eastward and could make out in it two more pack animals, tethered.

Wolf Breed Jackson Gregory 1912

At the end of the straight vista they turned sharp to the right and climbed a tongue of land -- what would be called a "hog's-back" in the West.

The Leopard Woman Stewart Edward White 1909

The top of the "hog's-back" had been flattened, and on it stood M'tela's palace.

The Leopard Woman Stewart Edward White 1909

We follow the long hog's-back that commands a view of the whole country round.

The Choice of Life Georgette Leblanc 1905

It was a huge hog's-back, rising a hundred feet up out of the forest, and when he reached the top of it, he was panting for breath.

The Flaming Forest James Oliver Curwood 1903

At first they breathed temperately upon the travellers, winds good to meet when one crawled over some gigantic hog's-back; but in a few days, at a height of nine or ten thousand feet, those breezes bit; and Kim kindly allowed a village of hillmen to acquire merit by giving him a rough blanket-coat.

Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900

The road wound astonishingly, and at one point, coming out upon a hog's-back ridge, we found that we had actually made a loop, and stood directly above where we had been some time before.

In Indian Mexico (1908) Frederick Starr 1895

Next moment the front cribs struck the "hog's-back" shoal.

Old Man Savarin and Other Stories Edward William Thomson 1886

On the hog's-back parting the great moat from the little, stood the Maid, crying: "Yield, yield you to the King of France."

The Merrie Tales Of Jacques Tournebroche 1909 Anatole France 1884

Scarce had she spoken ere a shower of arrows, some from the parapet-way where a Company of Citizens was defiling, some from the hog's-back where the Armagnac men-at-arms were massed, flew in her direction, and therewith a storm of insults:

The Merrie Tales Of Jacques Tournebroche 1909 Anatole France 1884