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单词 tie-dog
释义 tie-dog Obs.
Forms: see tie and dog.
[See tie- 3.]
A dog kept tied or chained up, either to guard a house, or because fierce; = bandog. (In last quot. fig.)
c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 308/301 Þe deuel..ne may no man..taken a-ȝein is wille, Nonmore þane a teiȝ doggue þat is in strongue teiȝe.c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 252 Þouȝ þei bynden hem not to o synguler place as a tey dogge.1430–40Lydg. Bochas iii. i. (MS. Bodl. 263) 151/1 Cruel Orchus, the teidogge infernall Shal reende thi skyn..fro thi bonys.1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 127 b, Ther are tye doggues or mastifes for keepyng of houses.1601Chettle & Munday Death Earl of Huntington ii. i. E iij, I knowe the villaine.., But as a ty-dogge I will muzzle him.c1700Mather in Harper's Mag. July (1883) 222/1 The Ty-dogs of the Pit are abroad among us.
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