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hobble-rope

hobble-rope is the alternative form of hobblerope.

Meaning of hobblerope

Noun

hobblerope (plural hobbleropes)

  1. A rope that ties the legs together, hobbling the person or animal that is so tied up.
    • draw the upper hind leg forward , by a side line passed over the neck and secured , then raise the extremities to an angle of about 45° , by passing the hobblerope through a ring overhead ;1885, The British Veterinary Journal - Volume 20, page 3

Forms of hobble-rope

pluralhobble-ropes

Questions about hobble-rope

What is hobble-rope the alternative form of?
Hobble-rope is the alternative form of hobblerope.

Words near hobble-rope in the dictionary

  1. hobble-chains
  2. hobble-de-hoy
  3. hobble-de-hoys
  4. hobble-dehoy
  5. hobble-dehoys
  6. hobble-rope
  7. hobble-ropes
  8. hobble-skirted
  9. hobblebush
  10. hobblebushes
  11. hobbled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hobble-rope (page history and authors); hobblerope (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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