A length of chain or other material used to fetter an animal.
hobble chains were always getting lost so we always took spares out with us
Example sentencesExamples
- Just before breaking in bullocks, they should be joined in pairs with a hobble chain.
- The chain a bit longer than an ordinary hobble-chain.
- He pulled a hobble chain from the horse's neck.
- Your horse acts like he had his hobble chain caught in a bush, or something.
- I see the two missing mares, with a broken hobble strap and the hobble chain swinging.
- Each bullock had a heavy leather neck-strap on, fitted with a hobble chain and swivel.
- The light hobble chain was within easy reach of the elephant's powerful trunk.
- There was the dull, clinking sound of a hobble chain as a feeding horse moved a few steps to another fresh tuft of grass.
- The animal had an uncomfortable experience here in consequence of catching the rings of his hobble-chain in the broken stump of a bush.
- He reaches out for a hobble chain and gently attaches it from the horse's left front foot to its left back foot.