All 20 Uses of
hobbled
in
Lonesome Dove
- Why would a man with your responsibilities want to waste time with a filly that's got to be hobbled and blindfolded before you can even keep a saddle on her?†
Chpt 7-8
- Looking more closely, Newt saw why the Captain had not bothered to stop the escape: the mule was hobbled.†
Chpt 9-10
- The sight of a man so addled as to try and get away on a hobbled mule was too much for Deets.†
Chpt 9-10
- He had got the thorn in his thumb hobbling the horses the night before, and had been unable to get it out in the dark.†
Chpt 23-24 *
- He managed to get the hobbles on his own horse and the pack mule, but had to let the mare go.†
Chpt 32-33hobbles = walks with difficulty (due to injury or physical impediment) OR hinders (made the action or progress of something difficult)
- In the next flash she saw the horses jumping and trying to shake off their hobbles.†
Chpt 32-33
- The woman seemed to derive a certain amusement from the way he hobbled around trying to gain control of his limbs.†
Chpt 36-37
- Blue Duck hobbled the horses, then came and looked down at her.†
Chpt 48-49
- "Take him," the Captain said, pointing to a steer with a split hoof who was hobbling along in the rear.†
Chpt 66-67
- He had camped on a little bluff, exhausted, and after hobbling the horse, fell asleep like a stone.†
Chpt 77-78
- Then he hobbled to the bank, wishing he had time to cut the two arrows out of his leg.†
Chpt 93-94
- Augustus hobbled over, drawing his pistol, and saw that both horses were down, their throats cut, their blood very bright on the green weeds and bushes.†
Chpt 93-94
- Then to Pea Eye's amazement he crawled out of the cave, hobbled down to the water's edge, and dug in the mud with his knife.†
Chpt 93-94
- Somehow he hobbled south all night.†
Chpt 93-94
- Yet they were the only feet he had, and after dozing for an hour in the sun, he got up and hobbled on.†
Chpt 93-94
- He rested three hours and then hobbled on through another night.†
Chpt 93-94
- He stuffed one pistol under his belt, holstered the other, took his rifle and a pocketful of jerky, and hobbled across along the bank to the animal trail.†
Chpt 95-96
- He started at once, hobbling southeast toward Miles City.†
Chpt 95-96
- He hobbled over the plain through the long afternoon and twilight, finally collapsing sometime in the night.†
Chpt 95-96
- Bert Borum, the best roper in the outfit, caught eighteen of the horses and they were brought back, hobbled, to the remuda.†
Chpt 97-98
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) 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.