英和和英

動詞

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.

名詞

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.

参照

• “hog-tie” in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing), →OCLC.