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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Hoppled

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Hoppling

[From

; cf.

To impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hamper; to hobble;

as, to

hopple

an unruly or straying horse

Fig.: To entangle; to hamper.

Dr. H. More.

Noun.

A fetter for horses, or cattle, when turned out to graze; – chiefly used in the plural.

Verb.

To tie the feet near together to prevent leaping; as, to hopple an unruly horse.