hog-tie
See also: hogtie
English
Verb
hog-tie (third-person singular simple present hog-ties, present participle hog-tying, simple past and past participle hog-tied)
- To tie an animal's or someone's feet 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
figurative use
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Noun
- The act of tying the feet together in this way.
References
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967