also 7 bogg, 8 bogue. [f. BOG sb.1]
1. trans. To sink, submerge, or entangle, in a bog. Also fig.
1641. Milton, Animadv., Wks. (1851), 238. Whose profession to forsake the world … boggs them deeper into the world.
1730. T. Boston, Mem., ix. 245. I mistook the way and bogued my horse through the moss beyond R.
1865. J. Ludlow, Epics Mid. Ages, II. 194. He is unskilled … and succeeds in bogging his cart.
b. (passive.) To be bogged: to be sunk and entangled in a bog or quagmire; also = sense 2.
1603. [see BOGGED].
1743–7. N. Tindal, Contn. Rapin’s Hist. (1751), I. 136. His horse was bogged on the other side.
1828. Scott, F. M. Perth, I. 63. Any other horse and rider must have been instantly bogged up to the saddle-girths.
1841. Arnold, Lett., in Life & Corr. (1844), II. x. 304. I hope to see some of my boys and girls well bogged in the middle of Bagley Wood.
2. intr. (for refl.) To sink and stick in a bog.
a. 1800. Trials Sons Rob Roy (1818), 128–9 (Jam.). Duncan Graham in Gartmore, his horse bogged: That the deponent helped some others of the company to take the horse out of the bogg.
