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ˈhopshackle, n. Obs. exc. dial.
[The second element is app. shackle; the first is obscure: cf. hopple, hamshackle.]
‘A ligament for confining a horse or cow’ (Jam.); a hopple or hobble.
a1568R. Ascham Scholem. ii. (Arb.) 128 Soch runners..in the end..cum behind others and deserue but the hop⁓shakles, if the Masters of the game be right iudgers.
So hopshackle (in 6 Sc. hap-) v. trans., to hopple or hobble. Obs. exc. dial.
1500–20Dunbar Poems liii. 12 He stackerit lyk ane strummall awer [i.e. aver, old horse] That hap shackellit war abone the kne. 1879Waugh Chimney Corner 17 Thou walks as if thou were hop-shackle't. |