Verb (used with object) : Arnold Palmer bogeyed the 18th hole. From Dictionary.com.
Noun, : Fear is the major bogy of novice mountain climbers. A speed of 40 knots is a bogy for motorboats. From Dictionary.com.
They say that from the time it was built, somewhere about 1831, by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to collect water for the canals, it has been the "bogie" of the district. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
American has a movable truck or "bogie" under the front part of the engine. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Cooper The Riverside Biographical Series, Number 4] Reference
The best example of a bogie was Sir Walter Scott's. From Wordnik.com. [Cecilia de Noël] Reference
Save me, Sean, from the almighty liberal bogie man!. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Texas Education Agency Slams Fox News’s Fearmongering About The State’s Social Studies Curriculum Changes] Reference
El fantasma (the phantom) La fantasma (the bogie-man). From Wordnik.com. [Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.)] Reference
"Of all the bogie men I ever saw you were the worst.". From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Noon] Reference
What about the bogie-man of a so-called "failed state"?. From Wordnik.com. [The Shame and Folly of Obama's Afghan War] Reference
When he taps in a two-footer for a double bogie, you applaud. From Wordnik.com. [Types of Lawyers] Reference
Tom took a seven on the hole, and Doc had a double-bogie six. From Wordnik.com. [Through a Glass Darkly] Reference
The carriages were converted from ordinary bogie wagons of the Cape. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
The total wheel base to the center of the bogie pin is 18 ft. 6 in. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884] Reference
I put a gloved finger to it and a bit stuck on the glove like a bogie. From Wordnik.com. [Magic X] Reference
Wrinkles are worse than bogie men, and "they'll git you if yo 'don't watch out!". From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture] Reference
And evidently he saw that bogie of the superannuated disappearing in the distance. From Wordnik.com. [Hiram the Young Farmer] Reference
Great Northern has considerably increased the diameter of the wheels of the bogie. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888] Reference
If the battle pattern should release a bogie, he may decide he'll make sure of us. From Wordnik.com. [Ensign Flandry]
An up to date bogie man invented for the purpose of chasing "has-beens" to the woods. From Wordnik.com. [The Silly Syclopedia] Reference
Skidding sulkies can be built with 2 wheels (1a) or with 4 wheels fixed to bogie axles. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 14] Reference
I closed the nozzle on the light and the writing went away, as did the bogie on my finger. From Wordnik.com. [Magic X] Reference
This dog, too, was paralyzed but its hind end was supported by a little four-wheeled bogie. From Wordnik.com. [Favourite Dog Stories]
An example of this is the logging sulky of which a bogie type has been developed only recently. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 2] Reference
"Do I look like the bogie man, who lives in the woods and comes to steal away naughty children?". From Wordnik.com. [The Automobile Girls in the Berkshires The Ghost of Lost Man's Trail] Reference
"'The bogie man will get you if you don't be good!'" squealed Artie Orr in a high falsetto voice. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy-Alone] Reference
Dave and I made very competent two-putts for our pars, and David just missed a par putt for a bogie. From Wordnik.com. [All Fore One: College pals reunite 35 years later at a golf resort] Reference
The weight in full working order is, on the bogie wheels, 15 tons 10 cwt.; driving wheels, 13 tons 10 cwt. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884] Reference
The framing of the engine bogie is attached to the hind bogie truck of the carriage by two diagonal drawbars. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886] Reference
There are many other types, such as the ten wheel bogie tank engines of the London, Tilbury, and Southend and. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884] Reference
Seward's first thought was that having held up the threat of servile insurrection he must now remove that bogie. From Wordnik.com. [Great Britain and the American Civil War] Reference
The Finstera are not a spacefaring people; there was no possibility that the bogie would be identified as theirs. From Wordnik.com. [Citizen Of The Galaxy]
I turned off the nozzle again and the bogie went away, but then I thought to feel for it on the tip of my finger. From Wordnik.com. [Magic X] Reference
I am specially pleased with; the last being an episodical bogie story about the Bass Rock told there by the Keeper. From Wordnik.com. [Vailima Letters] Reference
My opponent had me at the end of 15 holes, but I turned on the steam and on the 18th hole I made a birdie to his triple bogie. From Wordnik.com. [Blitzer: Most explosive charges I can remember] Reference
There are numerous fine engines running on other lines, such as the new bogie locomotives on the North-Eastern and Lancashire and. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884] Reference
Again, the long and heavy bogie Pullman and other coaches have the reputation among drivers, rightly or wrongly, of being hard to pull. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884] Reference
The distances apart of the centers of the wheels were in the case of the hind bogie 3 ft. 9 in., and in the case of the front bogie 4 ft. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886] Reference
They have single driving wheels 8 ft. in diameter, with a four-wheel bogie in front and a pair of trailing wheels, 4 ft. diameter, behind. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884] Reference
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