plow-line

God knows if dat Daisy was mine, I'd throw her down and put a hundred lashes on her back wid a plow-line.

De Turkey and De Law A Comedy in Three Acts Zora Neale Hurston

God knows if dat Daisy wuz mine, I'd throw her down an 'put a hundred lashes on her back wid a plow-line.

The Mule-Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts Langston Hughes 1934

Page 172 to give my mule a chance to graze, I tied one end of a long plow-line around his neck and the other to an ash sapling.

With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon John Allan 1914

And he turned toward the river and touched the mare under the flank with his plow-line.

The story of my life, or, More than a half century as I have lived it and seen it lived, 1912

"When you get a husband, Rose Mary, I hope he'll hump his shoulders over a plow-line the number of hours allotted for a man's work and then fly poetry kites off times and only when the wind is right," answered Uncle Tucker with a quizzical smile in his big eyes and a quirk at the corner of his mouth.

Rose of Old Harpeth Maria Thompson Daviess 1898

Jest back her around to another view of the question with a slack plow-line.

Rose of Old Harpeth Maria Thompson Daviess 1898

We put back the table and the chairs and stood our prisoners in the center of the room, sullen and coarse-featured brutes, and waited for the negro to come with the plow-line, and presently he appeared with a new grass rope.

The Jucklins A Novel Opie Percival Read 1895

Sam, a black beauty, with a pedigree as long as a plow-line.

The Jucklins A Novel Opie Percival Read 1895

Our hero handed the cards to his father, who, dropping the plow-line with which he had intended to tie Simon's hands, turned his back to that individual, in order to prevent his witnessing the operation of

The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) Various 1887

[Illustration] hick'ry saplin ', growin' in de fence-cornder, en tie one een 'un a plow-line on de top, en in de udder een' he fix a loop-knot, en dat he fasten wid a trigger right in de crack.

Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881