Definition of "hog"

Weanlings grow into feeder pigs, and feeder pigs grow into slaughter hogs. […] Ultimately the end use for virtually all pigs and hogs is to be slaughtered for the production of pork and other products.

2005 April, Live Swine from Canada, Investigation No. 731-TA-1076 (Final), publication 3766, April 2005, U.S. International Trade Commission, page I-9

Hog, on board a ship, is a sort of flat scrubbing-broom, formed by inclosing a number of short twigs of birch or such wood between two pieces of plank fastened together, and cutting off the ends of the twigs. It is used to scrape the filth from a ship's bottom under water, particularly in the act of boot-topping. For this purpose they fit to this broom a long staff with two ropes; one of which is used to thrust the hog under the ship's bottom, and the other to guide and pull it up again close to the planks.

1813, John Mason Good, Olinthus Gilbert Gregory, Newton Bosworth, Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, volume 5, T. Davison, Lombard street, Whitefriars, page 11

“’Ere y'are, the best rig-out you ever ’ad. A tosheroon [half a crown][sic] for the coat, two ’ogs for the trousers, one and a tanner for the boots, and a ’og for the cap and scarf. That's seven bob.”

1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXIX, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], pages 214–215

hog (pl hog). A shilling: orig. (ca 1670), c.; in C.19–20, low s.

1961, Eric Partridge, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang

hog (pl hog)... 2. In C.18–early 19, occ. a sixpence: also c., whence the U.S. sense. Prob. ex the figure of a hog on a small silver coin.

1961, Eric Partridge, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang

hog (pl hog)... 3. A half-crown: ca 1860–1910.

1961, Eric Partridge, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang

I would not consider a ship unseaworthy because she had a hog. There is no danger to life in sailing in a hogged ship. I have sailed in vessels having a 2-ft. hog in the keel. The keel has been straightened by being filled in underneath.

1920, The Records of the Proceedings and the Printed Papers, Parliamentary paper

On inspection it was found that the vessel's keel had a hog of nearly fourteen inches.

2007, Charles E. Brodine, Michael J. Crawford, Christine F. Hughes, Interpreting Old Ironsides: An Illustrated Guide to USS Constitution, Government Printing Office, page 84

He had to piss in the worst way, but the game was in play and there was no way he was going anywhere to relieve himself. It was right in the center of the Armand huddle that he got so desperate he pulled out his hog and let it go.

1996, S. Joseph Krol, Northbridge High Football Camp‎, GMP Publishers, page 9

It wasn't like I was about to drop my panties and ride his hog in the basement; I got down and dirty, but not like that; I requested the seclusion of four walls.

2003, Sonya Harris, Guilty Pleasures‎, Xlibris Corporation, page 77

The [...] air-conditioning unit didn't work very good, and there was only one fan; and from the minute me and Winn-Dixie got in the library, he hogged it all.

2000, Kate DiCamillo, chapter 15, in Because of Winn-Dixie, New York: Scholastic Inc.

Some, perhaps, would wish to plait or shave the tail and crimp or hog the mane to complete the picture.

1880, William Day, The Racehorse in Training

Although most of the buoyancy of a ship is provided by the middle part of the hull and comparatively little by the tapering ends, nothing will ever prevent people from putting heavy weights into the ends of a ship. One result of this is that many vessels tend to 'hog' (the two ends tend to droop and the middle of the hull tends to rise).

1991, J. E. Gordon, Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down, Penguin UK, page 52

Difficulty may be encountered when securing cargo hatches on ships which hog or sag and the water-tight integrity of the ship may be impaired.

2013, H. I. Lavery, Shipboard Operations, Routledge, page 267