hog score

hog score ExamplesWord Origin noun Curling.

1. a line at each end of the rink, parallel to the foot score and usually 7 yards (6.4 meters) in advance of the tee.

Origin of hog score First recorded in 1780–90 Examples from the Web for hog score Historical Examples of hog score

Hog, hog, n. in curling, a stone which does not pass the hog-score.

Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M)

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Hog, a stone that stops short of the hog-score, a line drawn one-sixth of the length of the rink from the tee.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8

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