hopple

From hop; compare hobble.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɒpəl/

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• Rhymes: -ɒpəl

hopple (plural hopples)

1. (chiefly in the plural) A fetter for horses or cattle when turned out to graze.

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. (transitive, figurative) To entangle; to hamper.
   • 1659, 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 Flesher, for William Morden , →OCLC:

     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 Body

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hopple

1. inflection of hoppeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative