Etymograph

English

hogframe

From hog + frame.

A compound of hog + frame

Middle English hog ‘a pig or swine, especially one that is…’

English hog

Proto-Indo-European *pró ‘toward, leading to’

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Proto-Germanic *framjaną ‘to further, promote’

Proto-West Germanic *frammjan ‘to promote’

Old English fremman ‘to profit, avail, advance’

Middle English framen ‘to construct’

English frame

Today it means

noun A trussed frame extending fore and aft, usually above deck, and intended to increase the longitudinal strength and stiffness, formerly used in American river and lake steamboats.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / hogframe