hog-tie
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See also: hogtie
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]hog-tie (third-person singular simple present hog-ties, present participle hog-tying or hog-tieing, simple past and past participle hog-tied)
- (transitive) To tie the feet of person or animal together; originally all four legs of a quadruped.
- 1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter XII, in The Understanding Heart:
- # “As an inventor,” Bob Mason suggested, “you're a howling success at shooting craps ! If I were as free of spavins, ringbone, saddle-galls, and splints as you are, I'd have that nanny-goat in here, hog-tie her, flop her and let the boy help himself. […]”
- (figuratively) To render helpless.
Translations
[edit]Noun
[edit]- The act of tying the feet together in this way.
References
[edit]- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967