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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Hobble \Hob"ble\, n. i. [imp. & p. p. {Hobbled}; p. pr & vb n. {Hobbling}.] [OE. hobelen hoblen freq. of hoppen to hop; akin to D. hobbelen hoblen hoppeln See {Hop} to jump, and cf {Hopple} ] 1. To walk lame, bearing chiefly on one leg; to walk with a hitch or hop, or with crutches. The friar was hobbling the same way too --Dryden. 2. To move roughly or irregularly; -- said of style in writing. --Prior. The hobbling versification, the mean diction. --Jeffreys.
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