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hoppling

hoppling is the present participle and gerund of hopple.

Meaning of hopple

Verb

hopple (third-person singular simple present hopples, present participle hoppling, simple past and past participle hoppled)

  1. (transitive) To impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hobble.
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To entangle; to hamper.
    • consider how we have such Faculties in us, as the Soul finds hoppled and fettered, clouded and obscured by her fatal residence in this prison of the Body1659, Henry More, The Immortality of the Soul, so Farre Forth as It is Demonstrable from the Knowledge of Nature and the Light of Reason, London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for William Morden […], →OCLC

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Questions about hoppling

What is hoppling the present participle and gerund of?
Hoppling is the present participle and gerund of hopple.

Words near hoppling in the dictionary

  1. Hoppins
  2. hoppity
  3. hopple
  4. hoppled
  5. hopples
  6. hoppling
  7. hoppo
  8. hoppoes
  9. hopportunities
  10. hopportunity
  11. hoppos

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