All 4 Uses of
hobbled
in
Oryx and Crake
- Once he's got the glass piece out he washes the cut with a little of the beer, then hobbles into the bathroom and rummages in the medicine cabinet.†
p. 275.5hobbles = walks with difficulty (due to injury or physical impediment) OR hinders (made the action or progress of something difficult)
- Then he hobbles to his own suite, what used to be his own suite, and collapses onto the damp unmade bed, and goes brownout.†
p. 336.0 *
- Instead of turning left towards his tree, he hobbles along towards the village.†
p. 359.4
- He hobbles across the beach to the water's edge, washes his foot, feels the sting of salt: there must have been a boil, the thing must have ruptured overnight, the wound feels huge now.†
p. 371.8
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.