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hobble chain

hobble chain noun: chain used to fetter horses or cattle.

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
    • According to his own statement, at about the age of seventeen, as the result of having been flogged by Grunter with a hobble-chain […] he crept on him one night and battered him with a nullah-nullah, leaving him for dead.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia, page 173

Forms of hobble chain

pluralhobble chains
alternative formhobble-chain

Questions about hobble chain

What does hobble chain mean?
Hobble chain means chain used to fetter horses or cattle.
What part of speech is hobble chain?
Hobble chain is a noun.
What is the plural of hobble chain?
The plural of hobble chain is hobble chains.

Words near hobble chain in the dictionary

  1. hobbitry
  2. hobbits
  3. hobbitses
  4. hobbity
  5. hobble
  6. hobble chain
  7. hobble chains
  8. hobble knot
  9. hobble rope
  10. hobble ropes
  11. hobble skirt

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