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chain hobbles

chain hobbles is the plural of chain hobble.

Meaning of chain hobble

Noun

chain hobble (plural chain hobbles)

  1. hobble chain
    • Along this unequal way, where loafers sat on whittled benches, lounged in doorways, leaned against porch props, Dan Gustin went pegging in his high-heeled boots like a mule in a Mexican chain hobble, holding a straight course for the hotel, past the doors of temptation.1923, George Washington Ogden, “Chapter 2”, in The Baron of Diamond Tail

Questions about chain hobbles

What is chain hobbles the plural of?
Chain hobbles is the plural of chain hobble.

Words near chain hobbles in the dictionary

  1. chain guard
  2. chain guards
  3. chain gun
  4. chain guns
  5. chain hobble
  6. chain hobbles
  7. chain latch
  8. chain latches
  9. chain letter
  10. chain letters
  11. chain lightning

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