All 15 Uses
hobbled
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The Heritage of the Desert
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- While the bustle went on, unhitching of wagon-teams, hobbling and feeding of horses, unpacking of camp-supplies, Naab appeared to be lost in deep meditation or prayer.†
Chpt 1
- Dusky forms passed to and fro under the trees; the tinkle of bells on hobbled mustangs rang from the forest; coyotes had begun their night quest with wild howls; the camp-fire burned red, and shadows flickered on the blanketed Indians; the wind now moaned, now lulled in the cedars.†
Chpt 3
- In a few moments, as though their happy screams were signals, the shady circle was filled with hounds, and a string of puppies stepping on their long ears, and ruffling turkey-gobblers, that gobbled and gobbled, and guinea-hens with their shrill cries, and cackling chickens, and a lame wild goose that hobbled along alone.†
Chpt 4
- Will you keep her hobbled?†
Chpt 5
- Look out she doesn't go, hobbles and all.†
Chpt 5 *hobbles = walks with difficulty (due to injury or physical impediment) OR hinders (made the action or progress of something difficult)
- Keep her belled and hobbled.†
Chpt 7
- Black Bolly broke her halter about midnight and escaped into the forest, hobbled as she was.†
Chpt 7
- Out among the cedars rose the peculiar halting thump of a hobbled horse trying to cover ground, followed by snorts and crashings of brush and the pound of plunging hoofs.†
Chpt 7
- "Silvermane and Bolly!" exclaimed August, "and now she's broken her hobbles."†
Chpt 7hobbles = walks with difficulty (due to injury or physical impediment) OR hinders (made the action or progress of something difficult)
- He rose at dawn, never failing to see the red sun tip the eastern crags; he glowed with the touch of cold spring-water and the morning air; he trailed Silvermane under the cedars and thrilled when the stallion, answering his call, thumped the ground with hobbled feet and came his way, learning day by day to be glad at sight of his master.†
Chpt 9
- Said they were tracking a horse that had broken his hobbles.†
Chpt 10hobbles = walks with difficulty (due to injury or physical impediment) OR hinders (made the action or progress of something difficult)
- Many mornings he thought it impossible to arise, but always he crawled out, grim and haggard, and hobbled round the camp-fire to warm his sore and bruised muscles.†
Chpt 10
- The gray's bell could always be heard near camp in the mornings, and when Hare whistled there came always the answering thump of hobbled feet.†
Chpt 10
- Then Hare saw that he wore no belt; he was unarmed; on the horses were only the halters and clinking hobbles.†
Chpt 16hobbles = walks with difficulty (due to injury or physical impediment) OR hinders (made the action or progress of something difficult)
- The thump of Silvermane's hobbled hoofs was heard in the darkness; Bolly's bell jangled musically.†
Chpt 21
Definitions:
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(1)
(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) -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Hobble originally referred to tying together two legs of horses or cattle, so they would not wander far away.