Dictionary Entry
hobble
hobble is a 6-letter English word with 12 senses as noun i, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To walk lame, bearing chiefly on one leg; to walk with a hitch or hop, or with crutches. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 15 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1noun i
To walk lame, bearing chiefly on one leg; to walk with a hitch or hop, or with crutches.
- 2noun i
To move roughly or irregularly; -- said of style in writing.
- 3transitive verb
To fetter by tying the legs; to hopple; to clog.
- 4transitive verb
To perplex; to embarrass.
- 5noun
An unequal gait; a limp; a halt; as, he has a hobble in his gait.
- 6noun
Same as Hopple.
- 7noun
Difficulty; perplexity; embarrassment.
- 8noun
the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg
- 9noun
a shackle for the ankles or feet
Synonyms
- 10verb
strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the legs on the same side moving in unison
"hobble race horses"
Synonyms
- 11verb
walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury
"The old woman hobbles down to the store every day"
- 12verb
hamper the action or progress of
"The chairman was hobbled by the all-powerful dean"
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