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hobble chain

noun

Definitions

  1. 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.
    • 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA