† tie-dogn.
Obsolete.
A dog kept tied or chained up, either to guard a house, or because fierce; = bandog n. (In last quot. figurative.)
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dogs used for specific purposes > [noun] > guard dog > tied or chained up
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c1290 S. 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.
c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 252 Þouȝ þei bynden hem not to o synguler place as a tey dogge.
1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes iii. i. (Bodl. 263) 151/1 Cruel Orchus, the teidogge infernall Shal reende thi skyn..fro thi bonys.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 127v Ther are tye doggues or mastifes for keepyng of houses.
1601 A. Munday & H. Chettle Death Earle of Huntington sig. E3 I knowe the villaine..But as a ty-dogge I will muzzle him.
c1700 Mather in Harper's Mag. July (1883) 222/1 The Ty-dogs of the Pit are abroad among us.
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