tangle-foot

The Other set a tangle-foot field of partial stasis to trap all their feet as if in ankle-deep tar.

The Fate of the Phoenix Culbreath, Myrna 1979

So, you see, it wasn't the dope evil that made me bind him in the chains of tangle-foot and force his putrid company on an angel.

Ambrotox and Limping Dick Oliver Fleming

With both hands he waved aloft his coat, on which was plastered a sheet of "tangle-foot" fly-paper.

The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories B. M. Bower 1905

Corroded tangle-foot to us, is rotting now in hell.

Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp Various 1904

"That chap must have been full of Arizona tangle-foot, to have fired as wild as he did," I ejaculated, and walked over to where the mail-car had stood, to see just how bad the shooting was.

Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 1902

You remember Scurry -- that educated horse-wrangler we had -- the college fellow that tangle-foot drove to the range?

Heart of the West [Annotated] O. Henry 1886

"That chap must have been full of Arizona tangle-foot, to have fired as wild as he did," I ejaculated, and walked over to where the mail-car had stood, to see just how bad the shooting was.

The Great K. & A. Robbery Paul Leicester Ford 1883

The fate of the unlucky flies that alight upon tangle-foot fly-paper in our houses had been the fate of the victims that had perished here.

The Breath of Life John Burroughs 1879

He could run faster, jump higher, hit harder, and hold more tangle-foot whisky without spilling it than any man in seventeen counties.

Roughing It Mark Twain 1872

He could run faster, jump higher, hit harder, and hold more tangle-foot whisky without spilling it than any man in seventeen counties.

Roughing It, Part 5. Mark Twain 1872