Definition

1. Adjective:
   • (Of a ship or boat) Having a hull that droops or sags downward at both the bow and the stern. This structural condition occurs when a vessel's keel is weakened, often due to stress, age, or damage, causing the middle part to appear higher than the ends.

Usage

• The term "hogged" is a specialized nautical adjective. It is almost exclusively used to describe the structural state of a ship's or boat's hull. It is the opposite of "sagged," where the middle of the hull is lower than the ends.

Examples

• After decades of heavy use, the old freighter was found to be hogged and no longer seaworthy.
• The surveyor's report noted the vessel was hogged, with clear evidence of keel deformation at both ends.
• A hogged hull can significantly compromise a ship's stability and strength.

Advanced Usage

• "Hogged line": In a broader engineering or structural context, this can describe any long beam or structure that curves upward in the middle. However, this usage is rare and technical.
  • The old bridge showed signs of a hogged line along its main span.

Variants and Related Words

• Hogging (n): The process or state of becoming hogged; the upward bending stress on a ship's hull.
  • The ship suffered from severe hogging after grounding.
• Hog (v): In a nautical context, to cause a ship to become hogged. More commonly, it means to take or use something selfishly.
• Sagging (adj): The opposite condition, where the middle of the hull is lower than the ends.

Synonyms

• Drooping (at the ends)
• Flexed upward (in the middle)

Antonyms

• Sagged (having a downward curve in the middle)
• Even-keeled (having a level, straight hull)

Adjective

1. (of a ship) so weakened as to sag at each end