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Walk lamely — restrict
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hobble
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hobble \Hob"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Hobbled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Hobbling .] [OE. hobelen, hoblen, freq. of hoppen to hop; akin to D. hobbelen, hoblen, hoppeln. See Hop to jump, and cf. Hopple ] To walk lame, bearing chiefly on one leg; to walk with a hitch ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
To hobble means to walk in an impeded manner, as if with a physical disability or injury , or to cause an animal or person to do likewise. Hobble may also refer to: Hobble (device) , a device used for restricting the ability to run or to walk Hobble skirt ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB around ▪ Swarf looked pleased and hobbled around the courtyard, laughing to himself. ▪ He finally bowed to the inevitable after 61 minutes, when he was visibly hobbling around . ▪ At 10 o'clock I hobbled around the ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Short straps tied between the legs of unfenced horses, allowing them to wander short distances but preventing them from running off. 2 An unsteady, off-balance step. vb. 1 To fetter by tying the legs; to restrict (a horse) with hobbles. 2 To walk lame, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a shackle for the ankles or feet [syn: fetter ] the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg [syn: hitch , limp ]
Usage examples of hobble.
Without a word of acquiescence or acknowledgment, he turned to hobble in the direction of the tarn.
Alice hobbled towards Mary, and when she came face to face with her, she was standing almost in the same place in which Alee had stood some days earlier.
The chaplain hailed him, and the turncoat to whom he had not yet been introduced arose expectantly, but the Nomad went straight to their hobbled horses.
He heaves his booty, tugs askew his peaked cap and hobbles off mutely.
The final climb left Batman breathless, and it was so steep that Malibu had to get off his stretcher and hobble along supported by two of the camo-clad natives.
There hobbles Goody Foster, a sour and bitter old beldam, looking as if she went to curse, and not to pray, and whom many of her neighbors suspect of taking an occasional airing on a broomstick.
Which had been a pointless order, when a score of undressed bibb is were hobbling down the highway with silver bells tied to their wrists and even the officers were staring at them like starving men seeing a plate of roast beef.
After a while they gave me a set of crutches I was hobbling around on them when this bogman in a dressing gown says to me: What happened to you?
Several animals, those called bosk, ten or more, hobbled, browsed among the trees on the other side of the camp.
Farder Coram and Lyra exchanged a look of alarm and wonderment, but only for a second, and then Farder Coram was hobbling out on his sticks as fast as he could manage, with his daemon padding ahead of him.
And when morning came dull and drizzly, like an old gray widow hobbling out from the dark, her cold tears freckling the sidewalks, in all my drunkenness and disarray, I went down to Emerald Street to seek my satisfaction.
Only the Eldern was silent, hobbling slowly toward the orbital view of Min-Tutopa.
By the time the horses were relieved of their saddles and hobbled, Baltis had a fire going, and Enam and Shamil were skinning and spitting hares.
He hobbled out into the hallway with Espe supporting him under one arm.
He turned from the wall and hobbled back to where Espe sat cross-legged on the floor.