sb. Amer. [Sp. (also Pg. and It.), of doubtful origin.] A rope of esparto grass or other material. Also attrib.
1856. Mayne Reid, Hunters’ Feast, xvii. 141. He is exposed, moreover, to the perils of … the creaking ‘soga’ bridge.
1910. H. Hesketh Prichard, in Blackw. Mag., June, 842/2. He [the grey fox] is an intolerable nuisance, gnawing through the sogas of the horses.
Hence Soga v., to tie up with a soga or sogas.
1902. H. Hesketh Prichard, Thro’ Heart of Patagonia, xi. 161. The next morning we sogaed up the horses and set out.
