Definition of hobble in English:

hobble

verb ˈhɒb(ə)lˈhɑbəl

1no object, with adverbial of direction Walk in an awkward way, typically because of pain from an injury.
he was hobbling around on crutches
Example sentencesExamples
- She picked up a crutch and began hobbling up to her room.
- He is also recovering from an operation, hobbling around on crutches with enormous bandages on both feet.
- Using his father as a human crutch, he hobbled round the track in agony, tears streaming down his face.
- Andrew watched him hobble awkwardly down the hall, then turned and started the other direction.
- He shook his head again and got up, hobbling away on his crutch.
- Up until that point Mitchell, who was last seen hobbling about on crutches with a hamstring problem, had been one of the game's better performers.
- I sighed and then picked up my crutches, hobbled to the door, and down the hall of the apartment to the living room.
- She hobbled in her awkward leg brace as she came to her next table.
- And the Olympic silver medallist in Sydney looked to be in considerable pain as he hobbled off the track.
- Defeated, humiliated and hobbling on crutches outside Atlanta's Olympic stadium in 1996, she concluded that if athletics could be so cruel she didn't need it.
- I began to hobble around and the pain was only bad when I moved my leg.
- I grabbed my crutches and hobbled over to his desk.
- He hobbled towards me on crutches.
- If both fore-feet are affected, the animal hobbles around and often kneels to graze.
- With that I grabbed my crutch stiffly and hobbled out the door.
- She turned right and continued to walk, Jon hobbling next to her.
- After the initial shock and the pain, I hobbled back to Grandma's feeling sorry for myself.
- I was forced to stop training for shows and I began to hobble instead of walk.
- At one point, the 44-year-old singer hobbled into court on crutches with his left foot wrapped in bandages because of swelling from what he described as a spider bite.
- Jack sighed and walked or rather hobbled with us to the front door of his home.
Synonyms
limp, walk with a limp, walk with difficulty, move unsteadily, walk unevenly, walk lamely, walk haltingly
shuffle, shamble, falter, totter, dodder, stagger, stumble, reel, lurch
Scottish hirple
2with object Tie or strap together (the legs of a horse or other animal) to prevent it from straying.
Example sentencesExamples
- At last a slot had opened up and I hopped aboard to ride in freight with caged roosters and hobbled goats.
- We hobbled the horses, and they browsed along the grassy bank, drinking freely from the lake water.
- By the time I hobbled the horses and returned to the fire Elza had woke and found breakfast.
- Camels and goats were either hobbled or tethered at random.
- Lash ropes and diamond hitches are untied, the horses unpacked and then hobbled or tethered in the meadow below camp.
- I unsaddled and hobbled the horses while Elza unloaded the packs and lit a fire.
- With a camelteer in view there is nothing to worry about, but I would not like to be left alone with a camel, let alone have to hobble a herd of bull camels at night.
- Isabeau, Louis, and Joseph dismounted and walked over to Nicolas as the other men unloaded and hobbled the horses.
- I looked as Madam was heading outside to tell Stephen not to worry about hobbling the horses.
- ‘That's reassuring,’ she responded, hobbling the mare with leather straps and removing her bridle so that she could graze.
- We had just picked a campsite for the evening, pitched the tent, and hobbled the horses.
- He hobbled his horse and turned away to open the front of his del.
- The drover got to work unhitching the oxen, and the horsemen unsaddled their horses and led them to the trees and hobbled them.
- So Wesley unloaded his horse, hobbled the poor, over-burdened beast and gave it a fond pat and wipe down.
- He untacked and unloaded the horses, then hobbled them and set them loose to graze.
- None of them spoke as they followed suit, mutely unloading the weary, nervous shen of cargo and tack, then hobbling them and setting them free to graze.
1. 2.1 Cause (a person or animal) to limp.
  Johnson was still hobbled slightly by an ankle injury
  Example sentencesExamples
  The other two had some injuries which appeared to be relatively minor, but enough to hobble them just a little bit.
  He was in tears in the dugout, his right foot swollen after being hobbled by another player.
  Stallworth was hobbled for several games as a rookie with a strained hamstring, and he has missed three games this season because of a variety of maladies.
  But the calf injury that hobbled him for much of last season is becoming a problem again.
  The price of snapping that 11-game losing streak was Tom, who reinjured the groin that hobbled him earlier this season.
  I am careful, though, to loosen my hamstrings since an injury last year that hobbled me for a few months.
  She was hobbled by shin-splints and, after a year on the team, she gave up hoops to focus her extracurricular energies completely on track.
  You can't be fit and healthy if you are walking around on crutches or hobbled with low back pain.
  Jeff Hornacek still is an outstanding shooter who also excels at many other aspects of the game, but he's hobbled by a sore knee.
  My father would get on his tennis court every day and hit balls come rain or shine, even when he was practically hobbled because his feet were so swollen.
  Lawton's big right toe, which hobbled him last season, was sore at the opening of camp, but offseason exams showed no significant problems.
  Williams was also hobbled by bone spurs, which he'd had since high school.
  But hobbled by multiple sclerosis, he retired from journalism early - in 1991.
  He is their biggest playmaker, but he's hobbled by a sprained ankle.
  A sprained ankle will hobble him for another few weeks, and be doesn't have the balance or footwork that he used to.
  If Ilgauskas, who has been hobbled by a serious foot injury, is able to return in the fall, this team is capable of winning 50 games.
  However, Parker has been hobbled of late by a bruised leg suffered in the Kings series, and it is unclear if he will be at 100 percent.
  The injury has hobbled him in the past and kept him out of parts of more games, even as he has played through it.
  But a knee injury hobbled him for a good chunk of the season.
  Michael missed the entire preseason with a shaky knee and now that same knee has hobbled him onto the injured list.
2. 2.2 Restrict the activity or development of.
  the economy was hobbled by rising oil prices
  Example sentencesExamples
  John Young, the colourful chairman of the famous Wandsworth brewery Young's & Co, has been railing against Government red tape that he says hobbles businesses like his.
  Despite playing more regular season games than he has since 2001, Shaquille O'Neal was hobbled through much of the playoffs.
  Many groups have argued that the mandate will hobble people's ability to make fair use of their media.
  But Dillon's analysis is hobbled by a few unresolved issues.
  It would hobble the product and hobble the marketing at the same time.
  She is hobbled by inexperience and a lowly position, but Wilmot takes her under his patronage and tutelage.
  The internet has become, to some, the ultimate symbol of modernity to the point that participants were hobbled without convenient access to routine information like maps and telephone numbers.
  Today, we see that government, in practice, controls very little of the communications industry, despite every attempt to hobble private enterprise.
  With the banking sector in a funk, total outstanding loans have been declining for the past six years, hobbling the ability of enterprises to raise capital for expansion.
  They follow limits placed on lending by state banks - in other words, the banking sector in general, already hobbled by massive bad debts to underperforming state firms.
  Security concerns will hobble investing in many parts of the world.
  That's in contrast to the nuclear energy and genetically modified organism industries, which are hobbled by bad public relations, she adds.
  Many corporate investigations are hobbled before they even start because security takes an overly aggressive posture within the organization.
  By sticking a bit too closely to the kind of musical approach he knows best, he hobbles this attempt at self-definition.
  With E Andre Wadsworth still hobbled by knee problems and E Simeon Rice gone through free agency, the Cardinals are desperate.
  Ten years ago, China cars were hobbled by shoddy quality, poor technology and little research and development in motor vehicles.
  What hobbles many teams is the lack of professional management.
  We run a significant risk of hobbling the effectiveness of an open market and entrepreneurial environment that has been unparalleled in history.
  Microsoft hobbles three opponents in one deal.
  Meanwhile, the constant transferring of large numbers of bulky audio and video files can swamp college networks, hobbling other users.
  To the ordinary punter, Google News will also be much more useful than Moreover, the best known headline aggregator, which deliberately hobbles search to encourage sign-ups and pay-ups.
  Unfortunately, we are still hobbled my some shortsighted policies which stifle growth in the domestic segment.
  There is a lot of concern that the Higher Education Bill could hobble students with up to £30,000 debt.
  That windfall gave Hutchison the cash it needed to get into 3G - and left it free of the debts that hobble other European carriers.

noun ˈhɒb(ə)lˈhɑbəl

1in singular An awkward way of walking, typically due to pain from an injury.
he finished the match almost reduced to a hobble
Example sentencesExamples
- He, like Zak, had had the cast taken off his left leg only the day before and now had a hobble which was somewhat comical when both walked next to each other.
- A little water, a quick hobble to the touchline and seconds later he was sprinting round like a 10-year-old.
- After a painful hobble to the bench, I sat and watched out the clock.
- Jim on the other hand; an old man with a greasy beard and a distinct hobble, little self esteem and no home to go to, had no concern for politics.
- He looked at me with a cheeky grin on his face and actually imitated my hobble all the way back to the entrance door.
- He took a step, more like a hobble with his crutches, closer.
- I could tell by her hobble that she had just put her heels on.
- The hobble became a rapid shuffle and then a quite respectable stroll, and the discomfort faded away.
- Elanor followed her slowly, she didn't entirely trust the shoes to hold her weight, and so she was forced to walk with an awkward sort of hobble.
- Her foot swelled during the night, making it hard for her to walk, so it was more of a hobble.
- He walks with a hobble and his wrists are limp, but Yearwood never let his disability stop him from pursuing his dream of being a marathon runner.
- I had a sort of odd hobble going on, I had crutches but it was still really painful.
Synonyms
lameness, hobble, uneven gait, shuffle
2A rope or strap used for hobbling a horse or other animal.
Example sentencesExamples
- Trist leaped to the ground and removed the hobbles, picked up his rifle and the canteens, and grabbed the reins of the mare.
- They had either broken their hobbles or moved an unusually long distance away during the night.
- I ran up the cliff face and pulled off the hobbles, before pulling myself unto the mare's back.
- Soon thereafter ride participants saw her with the short lead rope and hobbles in place, learning a lesson in discipline!
- Then he took the hobbles off his black horse, which had been grazing nearby throughout the night, and slung the queen onto the mare's back over his saddlebags.

Derivatives

hobbler

noun

There is a sprinkling of hobblers, plenty of wincers, and almost universal hollow eyes and messed hair.
Example sentencesExamples
- Henry Lewis, who had been handling around 80 ships a year in the 1870s, found he could only get around 20 jobs a year in the 1880s, and he had to supplement his income by working as a hobbler.
- A quick scan around reveals some more hobblers, someone bleeding from his hand and another with a violently scarlet eye.
- Along the river and especially around horseshoe bend you will notice that there are some large bollards on the river banks, these were used by the hobblers to haul the ships by hand.
- In the above photograph, the copper ore hoppers and warehouses on the right are already in ruins, and so are many of the houses once occupied by the shipwrights, hobblers and porters.

Origin

Middle English: probably of Dutch or Low German origin and related to Dutch hobbelen ‘rock from side to side’. hobble (sense 2 of the verb) is a variant of hopple.

Rhymes

bobble, Chernobyl, cobble, gobble, knobble, nobble, squabble, wobble

Definition of hobble in US English:

hobble

verbˈhäbəlˈhɑbəl

1no object, with adverbial of direction Walk in an awkward way, typically because of pain from an injury.
he was hobbling around on crutches
Example sentencesExamples
- I was forced to stop training for shows and I began to hobble instead of walk.
- At one point, the 44-year-old singer hobbled into court on crutches with his left foot wrapped in bandages because of swelling from what he described as a spider bite.
- And the Olympic silver medallist in Sydney looked to be in considerable pain as he hobbled off the track.
- Up until that point Mitchell, who was last seen hobbling about on crutches with a hamstring problem, had been one of the game's better performers.
- Andrew watched him hobble awkwardly down the hall, then turned and started the other direction.
- She hobbled in her awkward leg brace as she came to her next table.
- If both fore-feet are affected, the animal hobbles around and often kneels to graze.
- After the initial shock and the pain, I hobbled back to Grandma's feeling sorry for myself.
- With that I grabbed my crutch stiffly and hobbled out the door.
- Jack sighed and walked or rather hobbled with us to the front door of his home.
- I sighed and then picked up my crutches, hobbled to the door, and down the hall of the apartment to the living room.
- Using his father as a human crutch, he hobbled round the track in agony, tears streaming down his face.
- Defeated, humiliated and hobbling on crutches outside Atlanta's Olympic stadium in 1996, she concluded that if athletics could be so cruel she didn't need it.
- I grabbed my crutches and hobbled over to his desk.
- He shook his head again and got up, hobbling away on his crutch.
- She picked up a crutch and began hobbling up to her room.
- She turned right and continued to walk, Jon hobbling next to her.
- He hobbled towards me on crutches.
- He is also recovering from an operation, hobbling around on crutches with enormous bandages on both feet.
- I began to hobble around and the pain was only bad when I moved my leg.
Synonyms
limp, walk with a limp, walk with difficulty, move unsteadily, walk unevenly, walk lamely, walk haltingly
2with object Tie or strap together (the legs of a horse or other animal) to prevent it from straying.
Example sentencesExamples
- Lash ropes and diamond hitches are untied, the horses unpacked and then hobbled or tethered in the meadow below camp.
- We hobbled the horses, and they browsed along the grassy bank, drinking freely from the lake water.
- He untacked and unloaded the horses, then hobbled them and set them loose to graze.
- So Wesley unloaded his horse, hobbled the poor, over-burdened beast and gave it a fond pat and wipe down.
- Isabeau, Louis, and Joseph dismounted and walked over to Nicolas as the other men unloaded and hobbled the horses.
- By the time I hobbled the horses and returned to the fire Elza had woke and found breakfast.
- I unsaddled and hobbled the horses while Elza unloaded the packs and lit a fire.
- He hobbled his horse and turned away to open the front of his del.
- The drover got to work unhitching the oxen, and the horsemen unsaddled their horses and led them to the trees and hobbled them.
- ‘That's reassuring,’ she responded, hobbling the mare with leather straps and removing her bridle so that she could graze.
- None of them spoke as they followed suit, mutely unloading the weary, nervous shen of cargo and tack, then hobbling them and setting them free to graze.
- At last a slot had opened up and I hopped aboard to ride in freight with caged roosters and hobbled goats.
- I looked as Madam was heading outside to tell Stephen not to worry about hobbling the horses.
- Camels and goats were either hobbled or tethered at random.
- We had just picked a campsite for the evening, pitched the tent, and hobbled the horses.
- With a camelteer in view there is nothing to worry about, but I would not like to be left alone with a camel, let alone have to hobble a herd of bull camels at night.
1. 2.1 Cause (a person or animal) to limp.
  Johnson was still hobbled slightly by an ankle injury
  Example sentencesExamples
  The price of snapping that 11-game losing streak was Tom, who reinjured the groin that hobbled him earlier this season.
  Williams was also hobbled by bone spurs, which he'd had since high school.
  Lawton's big right toe, which hobbled him last season, was sore at the opening of camp, but offseason exams showed no significant problems.
  You can't be fit and healthy if you are walking around on crutches or hobbled with low back pain.
  He is their biggest playmaker, but he's hobbled by a sprained ankle.
  However, Parker has been hobbled of late by a bruised leg suffered in the Kings series, and it is unclear if he will be at 100 percent.
  But hobbled by multiple sclerosis, he retired from journalism early - in 1991.
  Jeff Hornacek still is an outstanding shooter who also excels at many other aspects of the game, but he's hobbled by a sore knee.
  If Ilgauskas, who has been hobbled by a serious foot injury, is able to return in the fall, this team is capable of winning 50 games.
  A sprained ankle will hobble him for another few weeks, and be doesn't have the balance or footwork that he used to.
  He was in tears in the dugout, his right foot swollen after being hobbled by another player.
  She was hobbled by shin-splints and, after a year on the team, she gave up hoops to focus her extracurricular energies completely on track.
  My father would get on his tennis court every day and hit balls come rain or shine, even when he was practically hobbled because his feet were so swollen.
  But the calf injury that hobbled him for much of last season is becoming a problem again.
  But a knee injury hobbled him for a good chunk of the season.
  The injury has hobbled him in the past and kept him out of parts of more games, even as he has played through it.
  I am careful, though, to loosen my hamstrings since an injury last year that hobbled me for a few months.
  The other two had some injuries which appeared to be relatively minor, but enough to hobble them just a little bit.
  Stallworth was hobbled for several games as a rookie with a strained hamstring, and he has missed three games this season because of a variety of maladies.
  Michael missed the entire preseason with a shaky knee and now that same knee has hobbled him onto the injured list.
2. 2.2 Restrict the activity or development of.
  cotton farmers hobbled by low prices
  Example sentencesExamples
  It would hobble the product and hobble the marketing at the same time.
  There is a lot of concern that the Higher Education Bill could hobble students with up to £30,000 debt.
  Unfortunately, we are still hobbled my some shortsighted policies which stifle growth in the domestic segment.
  Ten years ago, China cars were hobbled by shoddy quality, poor technology and little research and development in motor vehicles.
  John Young, the colourful chairman of the famous Wandsworth brewery Young's & Co, has been railing against Government red tape that he says hobbles businesses like his.
  Despite playing more regular season games than he has since 2001, Shaquille O'Neal was hobbled through much of the playoffs.
  But Dillon's analysis is hobbled by a few unresolved issues.
  Today, we see that government, in practice, controls very little of the communications industry, despite every attempt to hobble private enterprise.
  She is hobbled by inexperience and a lowly position, but Wilmot takes her under his patronage and tutelage.
  They follow limits placed on lending by state banks - in other words, the banking sector in general, already hobbled by massive bad debts to underperforming state firms.
  With the banking sector in a funk, total outstanding loans have been declining for the past six years, hobbling the ability of enterprises to raise capital for expansion.
  Meanwhile, the constant transferring of large numbers of bulky audio and video files can swamp college networks, hobbling other users.
  That's in contrast to the nuclear energy and genetically modified organism industries, which are hobbled by bad public relations, she adds.
  Security concerns will hobble investing in many parts of the world.
  That windfall gave Hutchison the cash it needed to get into 3G - and left it free of the debts that hobble other European carriers.
  Microsoft hobbles three opponents in one deal.
  Many corporate investigations are hobbled before they even start because security takes an overly aggressive posture within the organization.
  With E Andre Wadsworth still hobbled by knee problems and E Simeon Rice gone through free agency, the Cardinals are desperate.
  The internet has become, to some, the ultimate symbol of modernity to the point that participants were hobbled without convenient access to routine information like maps and telephone numbers.
  We run a significant risk of hobbling the effectiveness of an open market and entrepreneurial environment that has been unparalleled in history.
  To the ordinary punter, Google News will also be much more useful than Moreover, the best known headline aggregator, which deliberately hobbles search to encourage sign-ups and pay-ups.
  By sticking a bit too closely to the kind of musical approach he knows best, he hobbles this attempt at self-definition.
  Many groups have argued that the mandate will hobble people's ability to make fair use of their media.
  What hobbles many teams is the lack of professional management.

nounˈhäbəlˈhɑbəl

1in singular An awkward way of walking, typically due to pain from an injury.
he finished the game almost reduced to a hobble
Example sentencesExamples
- He, like Zak, had had the cast taken off his left leg only the day before and now had a hobble which was somewhat comical when both walked next to each other.
- I could tell by her hobble that she had just put her heels on.
- Jim on the other hand; an old man with a greasy beard and a distinct hobble, little self esteem and no home to go to, had no concern for politics.
- He walks with a hobble and his wrists are limp, but Yearwood never let his disability stop him from pursuing his dream of being a marathon runner.
- A little water, a quick hobble to the touchline and seconds later he was sprinting round like a 10-year-old.
- I had a sort of odd hobble going on, I had crutches but it was still really painful.
- He looked at me with a cheeky grin on his face and actually imitated my hobble all the way back to the entrance door.
- He took a step, more like a hobble with his crutches, closer.
- Elanor followed her slowly, she didn't entirely trust the shoes to hold her weight, and so she was forced to walk with an awkward sort of hobble.
- Her foot swelled during the night, making it hard for her to walk, so it was more of a hobble.
- The hobble became a rapid shuffle and then a quite respectable stroll, and the discomfort faded away.
- After a painful hobble to the bench, I sat and watched out the clock.
Synonyms
lameness, hobble, uneven gait, shuffle
2A rope or strap used for hobbling a horse or other animal.
Example sentencesExamples
- Then he took the hobbles off his black horse, which had been grazing nearby throughout the night, and slung the queen onto the mare's back over his saddlebags.
- Soon thereafter ride participants saw her with the short lead rope and hobbles in place, learning a lesson in discipline!
- They had either broken their hobbles or moved an unusually long distance away during the night.
- I ran up the cliff face and pulled off the hobbles, before pulling myself unto the mare's back.
- Trist leaped to the ground and removed the hobbles, picked up his rifle and the canteens, and grabbed the reins of the mare.

Origin

Middle English: probably of Dutch or Low German origin and related to Dutch hobbelen ‘rock from side to side’. hobble (sense 2 of the verb) is a variant of hopple.

单词	hobble
释义	Definition of hobble in English: hobble verb ˈhɒb(ə)lˈhɑbəl 1no object, with adverbial of direction Walk in an awkward way, typically because of pain from an injury. he was hobbling around on crutches Example sentencesExamples She picked up a crutch and began hobbling up to her room. He is also recovering from an operation, hobbling around on crutches with enormous bandages on both feet. Using his father as a human crutch, he hobbled round the track in agony, tears streaming down his face. Andrew watched him hobble awkwardly down the hall, then turned and started the other direction. He shook his head again and got up, hobbling away on his crutch. Up until that point Mitchell, who was last seen hobbling about on crutches with a hamstring problem, had been one of the game's better performers. I sighed and then picked up my crutches, hobbled to the door, and down the hall of the apartment to the living room. She hobbled in her awkward leg brace as she came to her next table. And the Olympic silver medallist in Sydney looked to be in considerable pain as he hobbled off the track. Defeated, humiliated and hobbling on crutches outside Atlanta's Olympic stadium in 1996, she concluded that if athletics could be so cruel she didn't need it. I began to hobble around and the pain was only bad when I moved my leg. I grabbed my crutches and hobbled over to his desk. He hobbled towards me on crutches. If both fore-feet are affected, the animal hobbles around and often kneels to graze. With that I grabbed my crutch stiffly and hobbled out the door. She turned right and continued to walk, Jon hobbling next to her. After the initial shock and the pain, I hobbled back to Grandma's feeling sorry for myself. I was forced to stop training for shows and I began to hobble instead of walk. At one point, the 44-year-old singer hobbled into court on crutches with his left foot wrapped in bandages because of swelling from what he described as a spider bite. Jack sighed and walked or rather hobbled with us to the front door of his home. Synonyms limp, walk with a limp, walk with difficulty, move unsteadily, walk unevenly, walk lamely, walk haltingly shuffle, shamble, falter, totter, dodder, stagger, stumble, reel, lurch Scottish hirple 2with object Tie or strap together (the legs of a horse or other animal) to prevent it from straying. Example sentencesExamples At last a slot had opened up and I hopped aboard to ride in freight with caged roosters and hobbled goats. We hobbled the horses, and they browsed along the grassy bank, drinking freely from the lake water. By the time I hobbled the horses and returned to the fire Elza had woke and found breakfast. Camels and goats were either hobbled or tethered at random. Lash ropes and diamond hitches are untied, the horses unpacked and then hobbled or tethered in the meadow below camp. I unsaddled and hobbled the horses while Elza unloaded the packs and lit a fire. With a camelteer in view there is nothing to worry about, but I would not like to be left alone with a camel, let alone have to hobble a herd of bull camels at night. Isabeau, Louis, and Joseph dismounted and walked over to Nicolas as the other men unloaded and hobbled the horses. I looked as Madam was heading outside to tell Stephen not to worry about hobbling the horses. ‘That's reassuring,’ she responded, hobbling the mare with leather straps and removing her bridle so that she could graze. We had just picked a campsite for the evening, pitched the tent, and hobbled the horses. He hobbled his horse and turned away to open the front of his del. The drover got to work unhitching the oxen, and the horsemen unsaddled their horses and led them to the trees and hobbled them. So Wesley unloaded his horse, hobbled the poor, over-burdened beast and gave it a fond pat and wipe down. He untacked and unloaded the horses, then hobbled them and set them loose to graze. None of them spoke as they followed suit, mutely unloading the weary, nervous shen of cargo and tack, then hobbling them and setting them free to graze. 2.1 Cause (a person or animal) to limp. Johnson was still hobbled slightly by an ankle injury Example sentencesExamples The other two had some injuries which appeared to be relatively minor, but enough to hobble them just a little bit. He was in tears in the dugout, his right foot swollen after being hobbled by another player. Stallworth was hobbled for several games as a rookie with a strained hamstring, and he has missed three games this season because of a variety of maladies. But the calf injury that hobbled him for much of last season is becoming a problem again. The price of snapping that 11-game losing streak was Tom, who reinjured the groin that hobbled him earlier this season. I am careful, though, to loosen my hamstrings since an injury last year that hobbled me for a few months. She was hobbled by shin-splints and, after a year on the team, she gave up hoops to focus her extracurricular energies completely on track. You can't be fit and healthy if you are walking around on crutches or hobbled with low back pain. Jeff Hornacek still is an outstanding shooter who also excels at many other aspects of the game, but he's hobbled by a sore knee. My father would get on his tennis court every day and hit balls come rain or shine, even when he was practically hobbled because his feet were so swollen. Lawton's big right toe, which hobbled him last season, was sore at the opening of camp, but offseason exams showed no significant problems. Williams was also hobbled by bone spurs, which he'd had since high school. But hobbled by multiple sclerosis, he retired from journalism early - in 1991. He is their biggest playmaker, but he's hobbled by a sprained ankle. A sprained ankle will hobble him for another few weeks, and be doesn't have the balance or footwork that he used to. If Ilgauskas, who has been hobbled by a serious foot injury, is able to return in the fall, this team is capable of winning 50 games. However, Parker has been hobbled of late by a bruised leg suffered in the Kings series, and it is unclear if he will be at 100 percent. The injury has hobbled him in the past and kept him out of parts of more games, even as he has played through it. But a knee injury hobbled him for a good chunk of the season. Michael missed the entire preseason with a shaky knee and now that same knee has hobbled him onto the injured list. 2.2 Restrict the activity or development of. the economy was hobbled by rising oil prices Example sentencesExamples John Young, the colourful chairman of the famous Wandsworth brewery Young's & Co, has been railing against Government red tape that he says hobbles businesses like his. Despite playing more regular season games than he has since 2001, Shaquille O'Neal was hobbled through much of the playoffs. Many groups have argued that the mandate will hobble people's ability to make fair use of their media. But Dillon's analysis is hobbled by a few unresolved issues. It would hobble the product and hobble the marketing at the same time. She is hobbled by inexperience and a lowly position, but Wilmot takes her under his patronage and tutelage. The internet has become, to some, the ultimate symbol of modernity to the point that participants were hobbled without convenient access to routine information like maps and telephone numbers. Today, we see that government, in practice, controls very little of the communications industry, despite every attempt to hobble private enterprise. With the banking sector in a funk, total outstanding loans have been declining for the past six years, hobbling the ability of enterprises to raise capital for expansion. They follow limits placed on lending by state banks - in other words, the banking sector in general, already hobbled by massive bad debts to underperforming state firms. Security concerns will hobble investing in many parts of the world. That's in contrast to the nuclear energy and genetically modified organism industries, which are hobbled by bad public relations, she adds. Many corporate investigations are hobbled before they even start because security takes an overly aggressive posture within the organization. By sticking a bit too closely to the kind of musical approach he knows best, he hobbles this attempt at self-definition. With E Andre Wadsworth still hobbled by knee problems and E Simeon Rice gone through free agency, the Cardinals are desperate. Ten years ago, China cars were hobbled by shoddy quality, poor technology and little research and development in motor vehicles. What hobbles many teams is the lack of professional management. We run a significant risk of hobbling the effectiveness of an open market and entrepreneurial environment that has been unparalleled in history. Microsoft hobbles three opponents in one deal. Meanwhile, the constant transferring of large numbers of bulky audio and video files can swamp college networks, hobbling other users. To the ordinary punter, Google News will also be much more useful than Moreover, the best known headline aggregator, which deliberately hobbles search to encourage sign-ups and pay-ups. Unfortunately, we are still hobbled my some shortsighted policies which stifle growth in the domestic segment. There is a lot of concern that the Higher Education Bill could hobble students with up to £30,000 debt. That windfall gave Hutchison the cash it needed to get into 3G - and left it free of the debts that hobble other European carriers. noun ˈhɒb(ə)lˈhɑbəl 1in singular An awkward way of walking, typically due to pain from an injury. he finished the match almost reduced to a hobble Example sentencesExamples He, like Zak, had had the cast taken off his left leg only the day before and now had a hobble which was somewhat comical when both walked next to each other. A little water, a quick hobble to the touchline and seconds later he was sprinting round like a 10-year-old. After a painful hobble to the bench, I sat and watched out the clock. Jim on the other hand; an old man with a greasy beard and a distinct hobble, little self esteem and no home to go to, had no concern for politics. He looked at me with a cheeky grin on his face and actually imitated my hobble all the way back to the entrance door. He took a step, more like a hobble with his crutches, closer. I could tell by her hobble that she had just put her heels on. The hobble became a rapid shuffle and then a quite respectable stroll, and the discomfort faded away. Elanor followed her slowly, she didn't entirely trust the shoes to hold her weight, and so she was forced to walk with an awkward sort of hobble. Her foot swelled during the night, making it hard for her to walk, so it was more of a hobble. He walks with a hobble and his wrists are limp, but Yearwood never let his disability stop him from pursuing his dream of being a marathon runner. I had a sort of odd hobble going on, I had crutches but it was still really painful. Synonyms lameness, hobble, uneven gait, shuffle 2A rope or strap used for hobbling a horse or other animal. Example sentencesExamples Trist leaped to the ground and removed the hobbles, picked up his rifle and the canteens, and grabbed the reins of the mare. They had either broken their hobbles or moved an unusually long distance away during the night. I ran up the cliff face and pulled off the hobbles, before pulling myself unto the mare's back. Soon thereafter ride participants saw her with the short lead rope and hobbles in place, learning a lesson in discipline! Then he took the hobbles off his black horse, which had been grazing nearby throughout the night, and slung the queen onto the mare's back over his saddlebags. Derivatives hobbler noun There is a sprinkling of hobblers, plenty of wincers, and almost universal hollow eyes and messed hair. Example sentencesExamples Henry Lewis, who had been handling around 80 ships a year in the 1870s, found he could only get around 20 jobs a year in the 1880s, and he had to supplement his income by working as a hobbler. A quick scan around reveals some more hobblers, someone bleeding from his hand and another with a violently scarlet eye. Along the river and especially around horseshoe bend you will notice that there are some large bollards on the river banks, these were used by the hobblers to haul the ships by hand. In the above photograph, the copper ore hoppers and warehouses on the right are already in ruins, and so are many of the houses once occupied by the shipwrights, hobblers and porters. Origin Middle English: probably of Dutch or Low German origin and related to Dutch hobbelen ‘rock from side to side’. hobble (sense 2 of the verb) is a variant of hopple. Rhymes bobble, Chernobyl, cobble, gobble, knobble, nobble, squabble, wobble Definition of hobble in US English: hobble verbˈhäbəlˈhɑbəl 1no object, with adverbial of direction Walk in an awkward way, typically because of pain from an injury. he was hobbling around on crutches Example sentencesExamples I was forced to stop training for shows and I began to hobble instead of walk. At one point, the 44-year-old singer hobbled into court on crutches with his left foot wrapped in bandages because of swelling from what he described as a spider bite. And the Olympic silver medallist in Sydney looked to be in considerable pain as he hobbled off the track. Up until that point Mitchell, who was last seen hobbling about on crutches with a hamstring problem, had been one of the game's better performers. Andrew watched him hobble awkwardly down the hall, then turned and started the other direction. She hobbled in her awkward leg brace as she came to her next table. If both fore-feet are affected, the animal hobbles around and often kneels to graze. After the initial shock and the pain, I hobbled back to Grandma's feeling sorry for myself. With that I grabbed my crutch stiffly and hobbled out the door. Jack sighed and walked or rather hobbled with us to the front door of his home. I sighed and then picked up my crutches, hobbled to the door, and down the hall of the apartment to the living room. Using his father as a human crutch, he hobbled round the track in agony, tears streaming down his face. Defeated, humiliated and hobbling on crutches outside Atlanta's Olympic stadium in 1996, she concluded that if athletics could be so cruel she didn't need it. I grabbed my crutches and hobbled over to his desk. He shook his head again and got up, hobbling away on his crutch. She picked up a crutch and began hobbling up to her room. She turned right and continued to walk, Jon hobbling next to her. He hobbled towards me on crutches. He is also recovering from an operation, hobbling around on crutches with enormous bandages on both feet. I began to hobble around and the pain was only bad when I moved my leg. Synonyms limp, walk with a limp, walk with difficulty, move unsteadily, walk unevenly, walk lamely, walk haltingly 2with object Tie or strap together (the legs of a horse or other animal) to prevent it from straying. Example sentencesExamples Lash ropes and diamond hitches are untied, the horses unpacked and then hobbled or tethered in the meadow below camp. We hobbled the horses, and they browsed along the grassy bank, drinking freely from the lake water. He untacked and unloaded the horses, then hobbled them and set them loose to graze. So Wesley unloaded his horse, hobbled the poor, over-burdened beast and gave it a fond pat and wipe down. Isabeau, Louis, and Joseph dismounted and walked over to Nicolas as the other men unloaded and hobbled the horses. By the time I hobbled the horses and returned to the fire Elza had woke and found breakfast. I unsaddled and hobbled the horses while Elza unloaded the packs and lit a fire. He hobbled his horse and turned away to open the front of his del. The drover got to work unhitching the oxen, and the horsemen unsaddled their horses and led them to the trees and hobbled them. ‘That's reassuring,’ she responded, hobbling the mare with leather straps and removing her bridle so that she could graze. None of them spoke as they followed suit, mutely unloading the weary, nervous shen of cargo and tack, then hobbling them and setting them free to graze. At last a slot had opened up and I hopped aboard to ride in freight with caged roosters and hobbled goats. I looked as Madam was heading outside to tell Stephen not to worry about hobbling the horses. Camels and goats were either hobbled or tethered at random. We had just picked a campsite for the evening, pitched the tent, and hobbled the horses. With a camelteer in view there is nothing to worry about, but I would not like to be left alone with a camel, let alone have to hobble a herd of bull camels at night. 2.1 Cause (a person or animal) to limp. Johnson was still hobbled slightly by an ankle injury Example sentencesExamples The price of snapping that 11-game losing streak was Tom, who reinjured the groin that hobbled him earlier this season. Williams was also hobbled by bone spurs, which he'd had since high school. Lawton's big right toe, which hobbled him last season, was sore at the opening of camp, but offseason exams showed no significant problems. You can't be fit and healthy if you are walking around on crutches or hobbled with low back pain. He is their biggest playmaker, but he's hobbled by a sprained ankle. However, Parker has been hobbled of late by a bruised leg suffered in the Kings series, and it is unclear if he will be at 100 percent. But hobbled by multiple sclerosis, he retired from journalism early - in 1991. Jeff Hornacek still is an outstanding shooter who also excels at many other aspects of the game, but he's hobbled by a sore knee. If Ilgauskas, who has been hobbled by a serious foot injury, is able to return in the fall, this team is capable of winning 50 games. A sprained ankle will hobble him for another few weeks, and be doesn't have the balance or footwork that he used to. He was in tears in the dugout, his right foot swollen after being hobbled by another player. She was hobbled by shin-splints and, after a year on the team, she gave up hoops to focus her extracurricular energies completely on track. My father would get on his tennis court every day and hit balls come rain or shine, even when he was practically hobbled because his feet were so swollen. But the calf injury that hobbled him for much of last season is becoming a problem again. But a knee injury hobbled him for a good chunk of the season. The injury has hobbled him in the past and kept him out of parts of more games, even as he has played through it. I am careful, though, to loosen my hamstrings since an injury last year that hobbled me for a few months. The other two had some injuries which appeared to be relatively minor, but enough to hobble them just a little bit. Stallworth was hobbled for several games as a rookie with a strained hamstring, and he has missed three games this season because of a variety of maladies. Michael missed the entire preseason with a shaky knee and now that same knee has hobbled him onto the injured list. 2.2 Restrict the activity or development of. cotton farmers hobbled by low prices Example sentencesExamples It would hobble the product and hobble the marketing at the same time. There is a lot of concern that the Higher Education Bill could hobble students with up to £30,000 debt. Unfortunately, we are still hobbled my some shortsighted policies which stifle growth in the domestic segment. Ten years ago, China cars were hobbled by shoddy quality, poor technology and little research and development in motor vehicles. John Young, the colourful chairman of the famous Wandsworth brewery Young's & Co, has been railing against Government red tape that he says hobbles businesses like his. Despite playing more regular season games than he has since 2001, Shaquille O'Neal was hobbled through much of the playoffs. But Dillon's analysis is hobbled by a few unresolved issues. Today, we see that government, in practice, controls very little of the communications industry, despite every attempt to hobble private enterprise. She is hobbled by inexperience and a lowly position, but Wilmot takes her under his patronage and tutelage. They follow limits placed on lending by state banks - in other words, the banking sector in general, already hobbled by massive bad debts to underperforming state firms. With the banking sector in a funk, total outstanding loans have been declining for the past six years, hobbling the ability of enterprises to raise capital for expansion. Meanwhile, the constant transferring of large numbers of bulky audio and video files can swamp college networks, hobbling other users. That's in contrast to the nuclear energy and genetically modified organism industries, which are hobbled by bad public relations, she adds. Security concerns will hobble investing in many parts of the world. That windfall gave Hutchison the cash it needed to get into 3G - and left it free of the debts that hobble other European carriers. Microsoft hobbles three opponents in one deal. Many corporate investigations are hobbled before they even start because security takes an overly aggressive posture within the organization. With E Andre Wadsworth still hobbled by knee problems and E Simeon Rice gone through free agency, the Cardinals are desperate. The internet has become, to some, the ultimate symbol of modernity to the point that participants were hobbled without convenient access to routine information like maps and telephone numbers. We run a significant risk of hobbling the effectiveness of an open market and entrepreneurial environment that has been unparalleled in history. To the ordinary punter, Google News will also be much more useful than Moreover, the best known headline aggregator, which deliberately hobbles search to encourage sign-ups and pay-ups. By sticking a bit too closely to the kind of musical approach he knows best, he hobbles this attempt at self-definition. Many groups have argued that the mandate will hobble people's ability to make fair use of their media. What hobbles many teams is the lack of professional management. nounˈhäbəlˈhɑbəl 1in singular An awkward way of walking, typically due to pain from an injury. he finished the game almost reduced to a hobble Example sentencesExamples He, like Zak, had had the cast taken off his left leg only the day before and now had a hobble which was somewhat comical when both walked next to each other. I could tell by her hobble that she had just put her heels on. Jim on the other hand; an old man with a greasy beard and a distinct hobble, little self esteem and no home to go to, had no concern for politics. He walks with a hobble and his wrists are limp, but Yearwood never let his disability stop him from pursuing his dream of being a marathon runner. A little water, a quick hobble to the touchline and seconds later he was sprinting round like a 10-year-old. I had a sort of odd hobble going on, I had crutches but it was still really painful. He looked at me with a cheeky grin on his face and actually imitated my hobble all the way back to the entrance door. He took a step, more like a hobble with his crutches, closer. Elanor followed her slowly, she didn't entirely trust the shoes to hold her weight, and so she was forced to walk with an awkward sort of hobble. Her foot swelled during the night, making it hard for her to walk, so it was more of a hobble. The hobble became a rapid shuffle and then a quite respectable stroll, and the discomfort faded away. After a painful hobble to the bench, I sat and watched out the clock. Synonyms lameness, hobble, uneven gait, shuffle 2A rope or strap used for hobbling a horse or other animal. Example sentencesExamples Then he took the hobbles off his black horse, which had been grazing nearby throughout the night, and slung the queen onto the mare's back over his saddlebags. Soon thereafter ride participants saw her with the short lead rope and hobbles in place, learning a lesson in discipline! They had either broken their hobbles or moved an unusually long distance away during the night. I ran up the cliff face and pulled off the hobbles, before pulling myself unto the mare's back. Trist leaped to the ground and removed the hobbles, picked up his rifle and the canteens, and grabbed the reins of the mare. Origin Middle English: probably of Dutch or Low German origin and related to Dutch hobbelen ‘rock from side to side’. hobble (sense 2 of the verb) is a variant of hopple.
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