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hobble-chain

hobble-chain is the alternative form of hobble chain.

Meaning of hobble chain

Noun

hobble chain (plural hobble chains)

  1. (Australia) Chain used to fetter horses or cattle.
    • He hums a song of someone / He hopes to marry soon; / And hobble-chains and camp-ware / Keep jingling to the tune.1889, Henry Lawson, “The Ballad of the Drover”, in Poems and Stories by Henry Lawson, Raleigh, NC: Hayes Barton Press, published 2006, page 221

Forms of hobble-chain

pluralhobble-chains

Questions about hobble-chain

What is hobble-chain the alternative form of?
Hobble-chain is the alternative form of hobble chain.

Words near hobble-chain in the dictionary

  1. hobble ropes
  2. hobble skirt
  3. hobble skirts
  4. hobble-bush
  5. hobble-bushes
  6. hobble-chain
  7. hobble-chains
  8. hobble-de-hoy
  9. hobble-de-hoys
  10. hobble-dehoy
  11. hobble-dehoys

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