Noun: hobble
| Singular | hobble |
| Plural | hobbles |
Sample Sentences
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We made it and we hobbled up the stairs. Or I hobbled. My sons didn't hobble, I hobbled. [2017, Sam Shepard, chapter 37, in Spy of the First Person, →ISBN, page 82:]
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"Saddle a horse—any horse—only let him be sure and fleet," cried Ashwoode, "and I'll pay you his price thrice over!"
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"Well, it's a bargain," replied the groom, promptly; "I don't like to see a gentleman caught in a hobble, if I can help him out of it. […] [1845, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, The Cock and Anchor:]
Nouns inflected like hobble
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English hobblen, hobelen, akin to Middle Dutch hoblen, hobbelen (Modern Dutch hobbelen).
Verbs referencing "hobble"
Irish Nouns
habal, Dutch Nouns
hobbel.