Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.
An adult swine (contrasted with a pig, a young swine).
Weanlings grow into feeder pigs, and feeder pigs grow into slaughter hogs. […] Ultimately the end use for virtually all pigs and hogs is to be slaughtered for the production of pork and other products.
A quahog (clam).
From Middle English hog, from Old English hogg, hocg (“hog”), possibly from Old Norse hǫggva (“to strike, chop, cut”), from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną (“to hew, forge”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewh₂- ...
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To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.
Some, perhaps, would wish to plait or shave the tail and crimp or hog the mane to complete the picture.
To process (bark, etc.) into hog fuel.