DCHP-3

enfarge

[< Cdn F]
Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n. and v.

of horses or cattle, hobble or fetter.

Quotations

1840
The Osage, on their summer hunt in 1840, unloaded their horses each night and set them free "after their forelegs had been fastened with enferges or horse locks."
1862
[We] camped near a large swamp . . . enfarged the horses and cooked ducks.