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hog-tie

verb hog-ties · hog-tying · hog-tied

  1. transitive To tie together the feet of a person or the feet or four legs of a nonhuman animal. # “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.

noun hog-ties

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

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Deutschfesseln, knebeln

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@misc{hog_tie_2026,
  title = {hog-tie},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hog-tie},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}