hog-tie

Synonyms for hog-tie

verb hamper

verb. hold back, control

verb. hold back, control

verb. hold back, control

also hogtie, "bind hands and feet," 1887, from hog (n.) + tie (v.). Related: Hog-tied.

"You'll have to hog-tie that feller," said one, drawing nearer than the rest in his interest.

We could throw an hog-tie her, sez Tank; and you could get it easy an comfortable.

To think that you managed to hog-tie me like this without waking me up!

So you tell me who are the top of the bunch in our class, and Ill go and fetch em in if I have to rope em and hog-tie em.

To "hog-tie" him in this position, was the work of but a moment, and at last the blue-roan outlaw was a captive.

I'm allers willin' to rope and hog-tie a new bunch o' words, an' I has gratitood therefor.

"Yuh want to hog-tie it, then," Big Medicine retorted, resentful because Pink seemed not to grasp the full humor of the thing.

The cattlemen wont hire me, though I kin rope and hog-tie as well as any puncher they got.