Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hobble chain

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.41 in modern English

Syllables: hob-ble chain
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Chain used to fetter horses or cattle.

Australian usage

Example Sentences

"He hums a song of someone / He hopes to marry soon; / And hobble-chains and camp-ware / Keep jingling to the tune."
"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."
"1992, Bryan Clark, Yammatji: Aboriginal Memories of the Gascoyne, Hesperian Press, p. 111 https://books.google.ca/books?id=C_UXAQAAMAAJ&q=%22hobble-chain%22&dq=%22hobble-chain%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiGtu6WvPrMAhVBSGMKHUF0BHoQ6AEIygEwHw "Old Pottsie, the boss, used to belt Yammatji with a hobble chain. He got my uncle and got the hobble chain and belted him with it. But my uncle never fell down, even when he got hit hard.""
"Each bullock had a heavy leather neck-strap on, fitted with a hobble chain and swivel, and a spare rope around its neck."

Usage

Australian usage

Inflected Forms

hobble chains (plural) hobble-chain (alternative)

Questions

What does hobble chain mean?: Chain used to fetter horses or cattle.

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