Both Uses of
hobbled
in
Main Street
- His drab courageous wife drove the wagon, and she helped Kennicott support him as he hobbled up the steps, into the house.†
Chpt 15 *
- They hobbled behind a band made up of business men and high-school boys, who straggled along without uniforms or ranks or leader, trying to play Chopin's Funeral March—a shabby group of neighbors with grave eyes, stumbling through the slush under a solemnity of faltering music.†
Chpt 35
Definition:
-
(hobbled as in: she hobbled up the hill) walked with difficulty (due to injury or physical impediment)
or:
hindered (made the action or progress of something difficult)