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Hobble
hobble
(hobbles, hobbling, hobbled) 1. If you hobble, you walk in an awkward way with small steps, for example because your foot is injured. He got up slowly and hobbled over to the coffee table... The swelling had begun to go down, and he was able, with pain, to hobble. VERB: V adv/prep, V 2. To hobble something or someone means to make it more difficult for them to be successful or to achieve what they want. The poverty of 10 million citizens not only demeans our society but its cost also hobbles our economy. VERB: V n
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I. verb (~d; hobbling) Etymology: Middle English hoblen; akin to Middle Dutch hobbelen to turn, roll Date: 14th century intransitive verb to move along unsteadily or with difficulty; especially to limp along transitive verb 1. to cause to limp ; make lame ; cripple 2. probably alteration of hopple to ~ a. to fasten together the legs of (as a horse) to prevent straying ; fetter b. to place under handicap ; hamper, impede • ~r noun II. noun Date: 1726 1. a hobbling movement 2. archaic an awkward situation 3. something used to ~ an animal ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v. & n. --v. 1 intr. a walk lamely; limp. b proceed haltingly in action or speech (hobbled lamely to his conclusion). 2 tr. a tie together the legs of (a horse etc.) to prevent it from straying. b tie (a horse's etc. legs). 3 tr. cause (a person etc.) to limp. --n. 1 an uneven or infirm gait. 2 a rope, clog, etc. used for hobbling a horse etc. Phrases and idioms hobble skirt a skirt so narrow at the hem as to impede walking. Derivatives hobbler n. Etymology: ME, prob. f. LG: cf. HOPPLE and Du. hobbelen rock from side to side ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. прихрамывание, ковыляние; припадание на одну ногу to walk with a hobble —- хромать при ходьбе; идти прихрамывая 2. запинающаяся речь; запинка, заминка (в речи); заикание 3. конские путы 4. путы; помеха; препятствие 5. узкая длинная юбка с перехватом ниже колен 6. диал. уст. разг. затруднительное положение; неловкость to get into a hobble —- попасть впросак 7. хромать, прихрамывать; ковылять to hobble along —- идти прихрамывая; ковылять the man hobbled along on his crutches —- мужчина ковылял на (своих) костылях 8. тянуться, тащиться (к какой-л. цели) try to hobble along to the end of the school term —- старайся дотянуть до конца школьной четверти 9. мешать ходьбе; заставлять хромать his tight shoes hobbled him —- он едва ковылял в своих тесных туфлях 10. запинаться; спотыкаться (на слове) 11. хромать (о стихе) 12. (с)треножить (лошадь) 13. затруднять, путать the students' inattention hobbles their learning —- невнимательность студентов мешает (вредит) учебе ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun 1) прихрамывающая походка 2) затруднительное положение 3) путы 2. v. 1) хромать, прихрамывать; ковылять 2) запинаться; fig. спотыкаться 3) стреножить (лошадь) ...Англо-русский словарь
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~ v 1 to walk with difficulty, especially as a result of an injury to your legs or feet (an old man hobbling along the street) 2 to loosely fasten two of an animal's legs together, to stop it from running away 3 to deliberately make sure that a plan, system etc cannot work successfully ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 13c. hoblen "to rock back and forth, toss up and down," probably related to its Du. cognate hobbelen. Transitive sense of "tie the legs of an animal" first recorded 1831, probably an alteration of 16c. hopple, cognate with Flem. hoppelen "to rock, jump," related to Du. hobbelen. Sense of "hamper, hinder" is c.1870. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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