hogchain

English

Etymology

hog +‎ chain

Noun

hogchain (plural hogchains)

1. A chain or tie rod, in a boat or barge, to prevent the vessel from hogging.

Hypernyms

• chain

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “hogchain”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• hoaching