Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . enage.) A device for confining thelegs of horses so as to hamper their motion and thusrestrain their wandering. A hobble. The devices are principally for shorteningtheir step and thus reducing their speed, as well aslessening their inducement to stray, owing to the in-convenience of motion and unaccustomed restraint. a is one intended for training. The pa
Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . enage.) A device for confining thelegs of horses so as to hamper their motion and thusrestrain their wandering. A hobble. The devices are principally for shorteningtheir step and thus reducing their speed, as well aslessening their inducement to stray, owing to the in-convenience of motion and unaccustomed restraint. a is one intended for training. The pads arestrajiped around the pastern and above the knee re-spectively, and are connected to each other by arubber band rove through a staple on the upper pad,and regulated as to length by the buckles on thelower pad. b is Captain Eagles hopple, in which the coup-ling-strap ling moves in staples in the fetlock straps,and does not tend to rotate the latter and thus gallthe limb. c has coupling-loops which divide the abrasivemotion between them. d has a strap which slips through the ring insteadof turning the leg-band. Hop-pole. (Husbandry.) A training-pole forhops. It consists of little but a simple sapling or Fig. 2557. Fig. Hop-Press. platform (cr, lower figure), with raised sides, andlegs arranged for leveling. A roof protects the Fig. 2559.
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