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Taking into custody
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collaring
Word definitions for collaring in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Collar \Col"lar\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Collared ; p. pr. & vb. n. Collaring .] To seize by the collar. To put a collar on. to arrest, as a wanted criminal. Same as put the collar on . To collar beef (or other meat), to roll it up, and bind it close with ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of collar English)
Usage examples of collaring.
If he is a young tarnsman, and she is his first girl, he will take her back to his own city, and display her for his family and friends, and she will dance for him, and serve him, at the Collaring Feast.
Following their collaring, however, as I had been, they were sent to the shed.
It was a rare fellow who did not, from time to time, regard the women of his own city as quite as suitable for collaring as those of other cities.
Though the girl loves the master with all her heart and would never dream of fleeing from him, absurd though such a dream might be on Gor, given the branding, the collaring, the closeness of the society, and such, she knows that she is upon occasion to be put in chains.
It was, after all, their own branding and collaring of which the men were speaking!
Still, Coe worked tirelessly and was zealous about collaring the Ghost.
Lavender as if collaring him at football, he knocked off his hat, propelled him into the car, banged the door, mounted, and started at full speed, with Blink leaping and barking in front of them.