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Grammar : Noun
Spell : rey-zer-bak
Phonetic Transcription : ˈreɪ zərˌbæk

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Origin :
  • type of pig with a sharp ridge-like back, 1849, from razor (n.) + back (n.). Especially of feral hogs in the U.S. South. Also used of narrow ridges of land.
  • As in hog : noun pig
Example sentences :
  • Finally I struck a circus, and got an engagement as a razorback.
  • Extract from : « The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus » by Horatio Alger Jr.
  • The mainstay of every farmer, aside from his cornfield, was his litter of razorback hogs.
  • Extract from : « Our Southern Highlanders » by Horace Kephart
  • The razorback has a mind of his own; not instinct, but mind—whatever psychologists may say.
  • Extract from : « Our Southern Highlanders » by Horace Kephart
  • The razorback is a powerful hunter, and it does not require a powerful animal scent to draw the razorback to the trap.
  • Extract from : « Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper » by Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock
  • The Razorback range is a very remarkable feature in this part of the country.
  • Extract from : « Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Vol 2 (of 2) » by Thomas Mitchell
  • The razorback hog recalled early memories to me of the country I knew when I was a boy.
  • Extract from : « The Flying Bo'sun » by Arthur Mason
  • This is not the only way that the razorback gets in his work, and a good bit of work they get in too.
  • Extract from : « Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper » by Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock
  • There had been certain portions of the razorback that they did not mean to take along with them.
  • Extract from : « The Boy Scouts Down in Dixie » by Herbert Carter
  • Pickaninnies, starved dogs, mules, razorback hogs and malaria seemed to thrive along with the willow and pepper trees.
  • Extract from : « The Yazoo Mystery » by Irving Craddock
  • The scrub and "razorback" hogs are very unprofitable, and require an undue amount of food to produce a pound of gain.
  • Extract from : « Agriculture for Beginners » by Charles William Burkett

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