Definizione monolingua

dally

dally (third-person singular simple present dallies, present participle dallying, simple past and past participle dallied)

1. To waste time in voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to trifle.
2. To interchange caresses, especially of a sexual nature; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport (compare dalliance)
3. To delay unnecessarily; to while away.
4. To wind the lasso rope around the saddle pummel after the roping of an animal
   • 2003, Jameson Parker, An Accidental Cowboy, page 89:

     The end of the top rope he dallied around the gooseneck trailer hitch.

dally (plural dallies)

1. Several wraps of rope around the saddle horn, used to stop animals in roping.
   • 1947 - Bruce Kiskaddon, Rhymes and Ranches

     What matters is now if he tied hard and fast, / Or tumbled his steer with a dally.

Definizione dizionario dally

Altri significati:

To wind the lasso rope around the saddle pummel after the roping of an animal

To interchange caresses, especially of a sexual nature; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport (compare dalliance)

To delay unnecessarily; to while away.

Several wraps of rope around the saddle horn, used to stop animals in roping.

To waste time in voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to trifle.