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hog-tie

hog-tie verb: to tie the feet of person or animal together; originally all four legs of a quadruped.

Verb

hog-tie (third-person singular simple present hog-ties, present participle hog-tying, 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.
    • # “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. […]”1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter XII, in The Understanding Heart
  2. (figuratively) To render helpless.

Noun

hog-tie (plural hog-ties)

  1. The act of tying the feet together in this way.
  2. A harness used to tie the feet this way.

Forms of hog-tie

Verb
third-person singular presenthog-ties
present participlehog-tying
past participlehog-tied
pasthog-tied
Noun
pluralhog-ties

Questions about hog-tie

What does hog-tie mean?
Hog-tie means to tie the feet of person or animal together; originally all four legs of a quadruped.
What part of speech is hog-tie?
Hog-tie can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of hog-tie?
The past tense of hog-tie is hog-tied.

Words near hog-tie in the dictionary

  1. hog-ring
  2. hog-rings
  3. hog-rubber
  4. hog-rubbers
  5. hog-slip
  6. hog-tie
  7. hog-tied
  8. hog-tieing
  9. hog-ties
  10. hog-tight
  11. hog-tights

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