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Definition of Hogtie
1. to tie together the legs of [v -TIED, -TIEING or -TYING, -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hogtie
Literary usage of Hogtie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lives of the Queens of England: From the Norman Conquest by Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland (1852)
"... and of the time when I might have the happiness of seeing him, for he has not
yet chosen to retire from La hogtie, though he has had nothing to keep him ..."
2. The Constitutional History of England, from the Accession of Henry VII. to by Henry Hallam (1862)
"... after a full knowledge of his connection with the court of St. Germain.1 But
Russell, though compelled to win the battle of La hogtie against his will, ..."
3. The History of England, from the Accession of James the Second by Thomas Babington Macaulay (1886)
"Barcelona would in all probability have fallen, had not the French Admirals
learned that the conqueror of La hogtie was approaching. ..."
4. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1834)
"There is DO tradition in the country of auy period since the battle of La hogtie
when the sea retired so far out as on this occasion. ..."
5. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1856)
"... do not pretend that its evidence is во irresistible, that no understanding
can fail of being convinced by it ; nor do they deny it 1 hogtie> ..."
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