HOBBLE

n. v.

7 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

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.
n.

To move roughly or irregularly; -- said of style in writing. Prior. The hobbling versification, the mean diction. Jeffreys.

3.
v.

To fetter by tying the legs; to hopple; to clog. " They hobbled their horses." Dickens

4.
v.

To perplex; to embarrass.

5.
n.

An unequal gait; a limp; a halt; as, he has a hobble in his gait. Swift.

6.
n.

Same as Hopple.

7.
n.

Difficulty; perplexity; embarrassment. Waterton.

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