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Meanings of razor-backed in English

Having a sharp narrow back.

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Usage of razor-backed in English
1
Moreover, their stock is of poor breeds; the pigs especially being wretched razor-backed creatures.
The Communistic Societies of the United States / From Personal V...
2
I reckon the girl was all right, but the family were these razor-backed, barnyard savages.
The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days
3
They are generally razor-backed beasts, with one or two raws, and blind, at least, of one eye.
Old Jack
4
Pigs, gone back to wildness, range the ridges, each razor-backed drove captained by a gaunt, savage, slab-sided old boar.
The Escape of Mr. Trimm / His Plight and other Plights
5
There is another whale, found in the northern regions, called the razor-backed whale, from a prominent ridge on its back.
Old Jack