The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . is higher than the other, which giveshim a hobble in his gait. Swift, Gullivers Travels, i. 4. 2. Difficulty; jierplexity; scrape. Now Captain Cleveland will get us out of this hobble, ifany can. Scott, Pirate, xxxiv. The aiTuy of the Spanish kings got out of a sad hobldeamong the mountains at the Pass of Losa by the help of ashepherd, who showed them the way. Bulwer, Caxtons, xiv. 1. 3. Anything used to hamper the feet of an ani-mal, especially a rope tied to th
The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . is higher than the other, which giveshim a hobble in his gait. Swift, Gullivers Travels, i. 4. 2. Difficulty; jierplexity; scrape. Now Captain Cleveland will get us out of this hobble, ifany can. Scott, Pirate, xxxiv. The aiTuy of the Spanish kings got out of a sad hobldeamong the mountains at the Pass of Losa by the help of ashepherd, who showed them the way. Bulwer, Caxtons, xiv. 1. 3. Anything used to hamper the feet of an ani-mal, especially a rope tied to the fore legs of ahorse to insure its being cauglit wlien wanted;a clog; a fetter. Hobbles are made of leather andalso of iron, in various patterns; and the name of onesuch ai-ticle is then commonly in the plural, like hand-cuffs, manacles, shackles, etc.: as, to put the hobbles on ahorse or nuile. hobble-bobble (hobl-bobl), n. Another formothubbh?-b„lllllr.^. HalliircU. [Prov. Eng.] hobble-bush (hol)l-biish), v. [< hubhle (uncer-tain) -t- 6«67il.] A low bush {Tiburnutii lan-tanoidcs) found in the northern United Branches of Hobble-bush {IibtirHum lanlaiioidtsi with flowersand fruit, a, fertile flower, front view ; b, same, back view; c, sterileflower. Its leaves are round-ovate, abruptly pointed, heart-shapedat tile base, and closely serrate, the veins and veiidets beingunderneath ; the stalks and branchlets are very rusty andscurfy. The flowers are large and handsome, in broad,flat, sessile (liobl-de-hoi), «. [Also 7i«/>ta/<-ho\i, hobbcdi/hoi/, hobbadehot/; earliest instanceperhaps hoblcdihoij (Palsgrave, 1540); appar. ofpopular origin, prop. *hobbledi/hoy, < *hobbledy,extended from hobble (cf. li iijijlcdij-pifKiledij, simi-larly extended from hiyijle, etc.), -I- 7/0;?/, unmeaning syllable. Cf. liobbledi/gee, hobble-dejuiise. Tusser says the third age of sevenyears is to be kept under Sir Hoblmrd de Hoi/(Halliwell) —a humo
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