Read full poem →The drugged hopes of yesterday?
O you poor mad men that hobble,
Will you not return, or stay?
Dictionary Entry
(chiefly in the plural) One of the short straps tied between the legs of unfenced horses, allowing them to wander short distances but preventing them from running off.
Origin
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Common Phrases
along hobble. hobblearound hobbleskirt hobble
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Poetry examples for “hobble”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →_Joseph_. And I will hobble well the ass,
Lest, being loose upon the grass,
Read full poem →Tho’ now ye dow but hoyte and hobble,
An’ wintle like a saumont-coble,
Read full poem →And I wot sae even fell down the rain;
Had Hobble na wakened at that time,
In the Foulbogshiel he had been ta'en or slain.