hobble

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He looked among his effects for a hobble, and, finding that his uncle had failed to put one in, he suddenly remembered that he seldom used a hobble, and never on this horse.

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  1. intransitive verb To walk or move along haltingly or with difficulty; limp.
  2. transitive verb To put a device around the legs of (a horse, for example) so as to hamper but not prevent movement.
  3. transitive verb To cause to limp.
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  • The old woman set off at a brisk hobble, and Rose was constrained to keep abreast of her, because the odor behind her was barely to be endured. —  Question Quest
  • IN DENVER, 1881-1883 It was in Denver that Eugene Field entered upon and completed the final stage of what may be called the hobble-de-hoy period in his life and literary career. —  Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions
  • Leon says that she will be able to move about normally within five or six more days; but at the moment the best she can do is hobble, and Huw is unwilling to delay the expedition until she recovers, and the year-captain has backed him on that. —  Starborne
  • The other night as I was hobble-hopping up the stairs, my knee went CRRACK and felt ever so much better. —  Luckybeans
  • Fifth Principle would warn that if Internet service providers "block, hobble, molest, unfairly prioritize, too deeply packet inspect, or otherwise selectively interfere with protocols or devices on the Internet," the FCC would take action against them. —  WebProNews Feed
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hobble:   hobbling ·  hobbled ·  hobbles
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English hobblen, of Low German origin; akin to Middle Dutch hobbelen, to roll.

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  1. from Middle English hobelen (= Dutch hobbelen, toss, ride on a hobby-horse, stutter, stammer, = G. dial, hoppeln, hop, hobble), variant of *hoppelen, English hopple (used in transitive sense), freq. of hop, v.: see hopple, hop. W. hobelu, hop, hobble, is prob. from English hobble.
  2. from hobble, v.
 

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