| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Seldom used present participle conjugation of the verb hopple.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (hopple) | 1. 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.[Wordnet]. 2. To impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hamper; to hobble; as, to hopple an unruly or straying horse.[Websters]. 3. Fig.: To entangle; to hamper.[Websters]. 4. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: hoppling, hoppled, hopples, hoppler, hopplers, hopplingly and hoppledly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "HOPPLING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Specialty Definition: hopple
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] To tie the feet near together to prevent leaping; as, to hopple an unruly horse.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Noun] A fetter for horses, or cattle, when turned out to graze; -- chiefly used in the plural. (references) | ||
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