| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To clog.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To chain, fetter, shackle, handcuff or manacle. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To tie or bond.[Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Present participle conjugation of the verb hobble.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (hobble) | 1. Walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury; "The old woman hobbles down to the store every day".[Wordnet]. 2. Hamper the action or progress of; "The chairman was hobbled by the all-powerful dean".[Wordnet]. 3. Strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the legs on the same side moving in unison; "hobble race horses".[Wordnet]. 4. To fetter by tying the legs; to hopple; to clog.[Websters]. 5. To perplex; to embarrass.[Websters]. 6. To walk lame, bearing chiefly on one leg; to walk with a hitch or hop, or with crutches.[Websters]. 7. To move roughly or irregularly; -- said of style in writing.[Websters]. 8. Base verb from the following inflections: hobbling, hobbled, hobbles, hobbler, hobblers, hobblingly and hobbledly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being balking.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being limp or lame. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being faltering, wavering or vacillating. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being staggering or doddering. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being vexing or annoying. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being confusing, puzzling or confounding. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being perplexing or mystifying. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Being distressing or sorrowing.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "HOBBLING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
Specialty Definition: HOBBLING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Walking with a halting or interrupted step.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of hobble. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: hobble
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Dog hobble | Fast-growing evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having arching interlaced branches and racemes of white flowers. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Hobble skirt | A long skirt very narrow below the knees, worn between 1910 and 1914. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Hobble skirt | A hobble skirt is a skirt with a narrow enough hem to significantly impede the wearer's stride, thus earning its name. Though restrictive skirts first appeared in Western fashion in the 1880s, the term is typically used in reference to a short-lived trend of narrow ankle-length skirts in the early 1910s, made popular by designer Paul Poiret. Poiret was inspired by Mrs. Hart O. Berg, who became the first American woman to ride in an airplane, when she joined Wilbur Wright in late 1908. Mrs. Berg used a piece of rope to tie her skirts around her legs in order to keep them from flapping while in flight, and Poiret saw her mincing away from the plane with the rope still tied. The original trend faded quickly due to the advent of cars - hobble skirts made it difficult to get into one, as well as the general impracticality. Hobble skirts did however catch enough attention to become one of the identifying features of the time period - for example, the shape of the classic Coca-Cola bottle may have been modeled after them. (references) | ||
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Topics by Level of Interest: hobble | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Hobble skirt | 21 | Hobble | 12 | |
| Hobble | 12 | Hobble (device) | 10 | |
| Hobble (device) | 10 | Hobble skirt | 21 | |
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