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