hog-tie

See also: hogtie

English

Verb

hog-tie (third-person singular simple present hog-ties, present participle hog-tying or hog-tieing, simple past and past participle hog-tied)

1. (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. […]”

2. (figuratively) To render helpless.

Translations

figurative use

• Dutch: kluisteren (nl), knevelen (nl)
• German: fesseln (de), knebeln (de)

Noun

hog-tie (plural hog-ties)

1. The act of tying the feet together in this way.

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967