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Keywords: perplex, embarrass, difficulty

To perplex; to embarrass.

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Difficulty; perplexity; embarrassment.

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Keywords: hopple, walk, restrain, hurnik, fetter

To walk lame, bearing chiefly on one leg; to walk with a hitch or hop, or with crutches.

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To fetter by tying the legs; to hopple; to clog.

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Same as Hopple.

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Any leather band or rope placed around an animal's leg(s) to restrain it. H08619. Definition from Hurnik et al., 1995.

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the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg

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walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury; "The old woman hobbles down to the store every day"

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strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the like-sided legs moving in unison; "hobble race horses"

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a device fastened to the front legs of an animal likely to wander off.

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rope or leather strap used to tie the legs together to restrain the horse.

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A hobble is a device for restricting the ability of a human or an animal to run or to walk by limiting the motion of the legs. Although hobbles are most commonly used on horses, they may also be used on dogs, especially during force-fetch training to limit the movement of a dog's front paws.

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Keywords: hamper, dean, chairman, progress, action

hamper the action or progress of; "The chairman was hobbled by the all-powerful dean"

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Keywords: limp, gait, unequal, halt, his

An unequal gait; a limp; a halt; as, he has a hobble in his gait.

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Keywords: shackle, ankles, feet

a shackle for the ankles or feet

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Keywords: irregularly, roughly, writing, style, move

To move roughly or irregularly; -- said of style in writing.

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