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单词 hobble chain
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hobble chain
3. A rope, strap, clog, or other apparatus used for hobbling a horse or other beast (see hobble v. 7); transferred a fetter; = hopple n. 1 (Usually in plural). Also (chiefly Australian) hobble chain.
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1744 F. Moore Voy. Georgia 147 Two horses tied with hobbles.
1797 F. Baily Jrnl. Tour N. Amer. (1856) 336 Our horses would seldom or never stray..; however, we always took the precaution of putting hobbles on their feet.
1804 L. Dow Trav. in Wks. (1806) II. 63 [Crossing a stream] I lost my hobbles.
1831 W. Youatt Horse vii. 111 The horse is cast and secured, and the limb..removed from the hobbles and extended.
1842–4 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm (1849) I. 525/1 The hobbles are then placed on the hind fetlocks [of the cow] to keep the heels down.
1850 F. E. Smedley Frank Fairlegh li. 449 A picturesque donkey, whose fore-feet being fastened together by..‘hobbles’, advanced by a series of jumps.
1901 M. Franklin My Brilliant Career ix. 74 The sound of camp-bells and jingle of hobble chains..had come to these men.
1928 ‘Brent of Bin Bin’ Up Country xv. 272 He remembered the hobble-chains behind the old stable.
1959 Listener 15 Jan. 113/1 In a brawl, they're deadly. Anything goes—spurs, hobble chains, the lot.
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