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Definition of Hobbling

Hobbling
Hobble Hob"ble, n. 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 ] 1. To walk lame, bearing chiefly on one leg; to walk with a hitch or hop, or with crutches. The friar was hobbling the same way too. --Dryden. 2. To move roughly or irregularly; -- said of style in writing. --Prior. The hobbling versification, the mean diction. --Jeffreys.

Meaning of Hobbling from wikipedia

- A hobble skirt was a skirt with a narrow enough hem to significantly impede the wearer's stride. It was called a "hobble skirt" because it seemed to hobble...
- custom of hobbling. In Anabasis, Xenophon claims "a Persian army is good for nothing at night. Their horses are haltered, and, as a rule, hobbled as well...
- Look up hobble in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. To hobble means to walk in an impeded manner, as if with a physical disability or injury, or to cause...
- Hobble Cr**** may refer to a location in the U.S. state of Utah: Hobble Cr**** (Utah County, Utah), a tributary of Utah Lake Hobble Cr****, Utah, a census-designated...
- The Man in Hobbles is a 1928 American silent comedy film directed by George Archainbaud and starring John Harron, Lila Lee and Lucien Littlefield. The...
- The Haber process, also called the Haber–Bosch process, is the main industrial procedure for the production of ammonia. The German chemists Fritz Haber...
- soil favoured certain forms of agriculture, trade barriers frequently hobbled its development. Repeated invasions and plantations disrupted land-ownership...
- A maritime pilot, marine pilot, harbor pilot, port pilot, ship pilot, or simply pilot, is a mariner who has specific knowledge of an often dangerous or...
- Hobble Cr**** is a census-designated place (CDP) in eastern Utah County, Utah, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. The...
- southeastern United States, with the common names swamp dog-laurel and coastal dog-hobble. It has been reported from Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia...