Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The mane of a horse cut short or roached so as to stand up, like the bristles on a hog's back.

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Examples

  • It is easily known by its fresh-looking, juicy, verdant little leaves, and by its tiny white star-like flowers; also by a line of small stiff hairs, which runs up one side of the stalk like a vegetable hog-mane, and when it reaches a pair of leaves immediately shifts its position, and runs up higher on the opposite side.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • The air was balsamic with the odours of the pines which clothed the hillsides for miles and miles and miles in squares and oblongs and a hundred irregular forms of blackish green, sometimes snaking in a thin dark line, sometimes topping a crest with a close-cropped hog-mane, and sometimes clustering densely over a whole slope, but always throwing the neighbouring yellows and greens and grays into a wonderful aerial delicacy of contrast.

    Schwartz: A History From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray David Christie Murray

  • Now if there was one thing dearer to Salter's heart than another, it was his little roan mare Judy: her excellent condition, and jaunty little hog-mane and tail, testified to her master's loving care.

    Station Amusements 1871

  • If you have ever seen a pony with a hog-mane, that was more the character of this creature's mane, if mane it was.

    A Simpleton Charles Reade 1849

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