Strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the legs on the same side moving in unison.
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Examples for "hobble"
Examples for "hobble"
1Big share buybacks and high debts could hobble investment in new products.
2Firms can quietly hobble sceptics by limiting access to information or people.
3She did at least manage to hobble off when the time came.
4Tobin dropped his buckets and helped him hobble down to the water.
5The next day, bruised and sore, Ned could barely hobble to work.
1My horse, well trained to such tactics stayed where I had dismounted, without tie or hopple.
2The fine drizzle had turned into a steady soft rain that pattered on the broad moose-hopple leaves.
3We tie him to a tree, and hopple his fore and hind feet, lest he may struggle.
4Yes, and I'm rigging hopples to keep him here, I tell you.
5Our horses were hoppled and turned loose in the cane-brakes, with bells round their necks.
6He laughed to himself as he reached his mules and found them heavily hoppled with iron chains.
7Another bee was caught, imprisoned under the glass, fed, hoppled with wool, and then let go again.
8The horses and other animals were picketted or hoppled upon the plain, which was covered with a short brown grass.
9"I have a folding table and dishes in my wagon, and I'll send Bill Hopple after 'em."
10Within twenty minutes the big wagon, drawn by a pair of mules, came up with Bill Hopple driving and his horse tied to the tailboard.