hog line

Area between the hog line and the tee line, excluding the house.

The eye on the hog eliminates human error and the need for hog line officials.

He selects a tight, inclined passage and enters, allowing the hog line to feed out to mark their route.

Some teams use stopwatch timing, from back line to the nearest hog line as a sweeping aid.

The back line to hog line speed is used principally by sweepers to get an initial sense of the weight of a stone.

Hog line (near)

During spring salmon and steelhead runs, fishermen anchor their boats side by side to form a "hog line" just below the falls.

He is credited with starting the Wengler Red Waddle Hog line.

Sly loses control in six of his eight rocks before reaching the hog line, and doesn't place any of the rocks in the house.

House, Hack and Hog Line: Wausau Curling Club, a history.

Contestants must push a large "rock" with the car and brake before reaching a "hog line", while the momentum of the rock carries it into a "house".

In competition, an electronic handle known as the eye on the hog may be fitted to detect hog line violations, the game's most frequent cause of controversy.

This time is the time the rock takes from the moment it crosses the near hog line till it crosses the far hog line.

Over the downs the sun was going down; from where I stood I could trace the hogged line of the hills from Butser to South Harting.

It involves players sliding a rock down an ice sheet, using brooms to guide it to the tee in the house, and heaven help the shooter who crosses the hog line.

This electronically detects whether the thrower's hand is in contact with the handle as it passes the hog line and indicates a violation by lights at the base of the handle.

An exception is made if the thrown stone fails to cross the far hog line after striking a resting stone in play (e.g., a stone just past the hog line).

In Shirley's attempts, she never gets comfortable getting up to speed without losing control of the rock, and she only gets two rocks to the hog line - both of which promptly stop a few feet past the line.

At professional levels sweepers use a timer to measure the time between the start of the delivery and the rock hitting the hog line, and will then call out that time as an indicator of the shot's weight.

In continuous operation since the 1870's, the Tavern now offers dining in the original building, or for the gregarious, a bar next door, which on weekends draws crowds of Harley-Davidson riders, their chrome hogs lining the road a hundred deep.

One such measure known as "hog-to-tee" is the amount of time that a rock will take from the moment that it crosses the hog line at the throwing end to come to rest at the tee line at the playing end.

When throwing the rock, the player must release it before reaching the near hog line (players usually slide while releasing their shots) and it must completely cross the far hog line; otherwise, the rock is removed from play (hogged).

The stone is released as the thrower's momentum wanes, or the hog line is approached, at which point the turn is imparted by a slight clockwise or anti-clockwise twist of the handle from around the two or ten o'clock position to the 12 o'clock on release.

At the start of each end, two rocks start in play - one in the back half of the button with the front of the rock at the very center of the house, and a rock of the opposite color guarding on the center line, halfway between the front of the house and the hog line.

Once it is determined that a rock taking (for example) 12 seconds to go from hog line to hog line will stop on the tee line, the curler can know that if the hog-to-hog time is matched by a future stone, that stone will likely stop at approximately the same location.