hough-bandn.
‘A band which confines one of the legs of a restless animal; it passes round the neck and one of the legs’ ( Gallovid. Encycl. 1824).
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > hobble or fetter
cubbelc1230
pastern1284
lock1384
langle1394
spannel1398
warlockc1440
curb1477
hough-band1568
foot widdy1569
curble1598
spancel1610
hopple1641
twitchel1689
collaring1692
hobble1744
sideline1803
hog-tie1902
pigging-string1924
1568 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlvi. 12 Gar heiss hir quhill hir howbandis skaill.
1686 G. Stuart Joco-serious Disc. 14 Nae hough-bands now for Godly helping.
Derivatives
hough-band v. (transitive) ‘to tie a band round the hough of a cow, or horse, to prevent it from straying’ (Jamieson); figurative to confine, put restraint upon, coerce.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > restriction of free action > restrict in free action [verb (transitive)]
bindc1200
hamper?a1366
chain1377
coarctc1400
prison?a1425
tether?a1505
fetter1526
imprisona1533
strait1533
swaddle1539
measure1560
shacklea1568
to tie up1570
manacle1577
straitena1586
hopple1586
immew16..
scant1600
cabina1616
criba1616
trammela1616
copse1617
cramp1625
cloister1627
incarcerate1640
hidebind1642
strait-lace1662
perstringe1679
hough-band1688
cabin1780
pin1795
strait jacket1814
peg1832
befetter1837
to tie the hands of1866
corset1935
society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > restrict or limit [verb (transitive)] > in free action
bind971
hamper?a1366
chain1377
coarctc1400
prison?a1425
tether?a1505
fetter1526
imprisona1533
strait1533
swaddle1539
measure1560
shacklea1568
to tie up1570
manacle1577
straitena1586
hopple1586
immew16..
scant1600
cabina1616
criba1616
trammela1616
copse1617
cramp1625
cloister1627
incarcerate1640
hidebind1642
to box up1659
strait-lace1662
perstringe1679
hough-band1688
cabin1780
pin1795
strait jacket1814
peg1832
befetter1837
to tie the hands of1866
hog-tie1924
corset1935
1688 D. Granville Let. 19 Mar. in Remains (1861) I. (Surtees 1858) 228 Nor will I hough-band, or so much as hamper or fetter my Soveraign, God's deputy.
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