10 LIBRI IN INGLESE ASSOCIATI CON «HOG MANE»
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1
The Chambers Dictionary
vr to cut like a hog's mane; to behave like a hog or a road-hog towards; to take or
use selfishly: - - prp hogg ing; pa 1 and fit i' hogged. — adj hogged (hogd). n
hogg erel a yearling sheep. — n hogg ery hogs collectively; hoggish- ness of ...
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The English dialect dictionary
\Vil.l, w_SQm_l Hence (I) Hog-mane,sb. a horse's mane,cut quite short, so as to
stand erect; (2) -maned,j>j>l. adj. having the mane cut quite short. Gen. in Also (i)
Shr.l Sus., Hmp. HOLLOWAY, I.W.l (2) n.Lin.l w.Som.l Used by auctioneers in ...
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A general dictionary of provincialisms
To HOG, v. a. To '' hog a horse's mane," is to cut it up on both sides to a point
resembling a hog's mane. Hants. Sussex. HOG-MANE, s. A horse's mane
trimmed as above. Hants. Sussex. HOGGETS, s. [Hog-colts,] colts of a year old.
Hampshire.
William Holloway (of Rye, in Sussex.), 1839
4
The Book of the Farm: Detailing the Labours of the Farmer, ...
One is the pointed or hog-mane shape, as shewn in fig. 387; the other is a more
natural form assumed by the plants, on having leave to shoot up their tops, whilst
the lateral branches are switched off. Though these two forms are also found in ...
N. E. D., s. v. Hog appears as a verb with this special meaning in J. O. Wright,
English Dialect Dictionary, 111(1902), 196, s. v. 14, where it is noted that both
hogged mane, and hog- mane are used in auctioneers' advertisements. On the ...
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Concise English Dictionary
hogan holla cut like a hog's mane: lo take or use selfishly: — pr.p. hogg'ing; pa.t.
and pa.p. hogged. — adj. hogged (hogd). — n. hogg'et a yearling sheep or colt.
— adj. hoggish. — adv. hoggishly. — n. hogg ishness. — hog'back, hog's' back a
...
7
The Horse: With a Treatise of Draught
The mane is generally dressed so as to lie on the right side — some persons
divide it equally on both sides. For ponies it used to be cut off near the roots, only
a few stumps being left to stand perpendicularly. This was termed the hog-mane.
8
The Works of Professor Wilson of the University of ...
... an iron-grey let us call him, though he was not an iron-grey — for his shoulders
, and flanks, and rump, were dappled even as if he had been a cloud-steed of the
Isle of Sky ; a hog-mane let us call him, though he was not a hog-mane, for wild ...
John Wilson, James Frederick Ferrier, 1856
9
Essays critical and imaginative
... a hog-mane let us call him, though he was not a hog-mane, for wild above rule
or art, that high-ridged arch disdained the shears, and in spite of them showed at
once in picturesque union boarish bristle and leoniue hair; a cropear let us call ...
John Wilson, James Frederick Ferrier, 1857
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The Works: Essays, critical, and imaginative ; [3]
... an iron-grey let us call him, though he was not an iron-grey— for his shoulders,
and flanks, and rump, were dappled even as if he had been a cloud-steed of the
Isle of Sky ; a hog-mane let us call him, though he was not a hog-mane, for wild ...
John Wilson, James Frederick Ferrier, 1867
