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hogback

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hog·back  (hôgbk, hg-)
n.
A sharp ridge with steeply sloping sides, produced by erosion of the broken edges of highly tilted strata.
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Noun1.hogbackhogback - a narrow ridge of hills              
ridgeline, ridge - a long narrow range of hills


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Common Ground Center, a nonprofit organization that aims to strengthen diverse families and communities, has a vegetarian camp on 700 acres near Lewis Creek and the Hogback Mountains in Vermont.
The Japanese couldn't see us from their higher positions, so they didn't fire at us as we advanced up a hogback between the mountains the first day," Mr.
Topography consists of broad, moderately sloping uplands bordered by the Purgatoire River Canyon on the east, limestone hills on the west, and a basaltic hogback on the south.
 
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