hobbling 的 3 个定义
hob·bled, hob·bling.
- to walk lamely; limp.
- to proceed irregularly and haltingly: His verses hobble with their faulty meters.
hob·bled, hob·bling.
- to cause to limp: His tight shoes hobbled him.
- to fasten together the legs of by short lengths of rope to prevent free motion.
- to impede; hamper the progress of.
- an act of hobbling; an uneven, halting gait; a limp.
- a rope, strap, etc., used to hobble an animal.
- hobbles, a leg harness for controlling the gait of a pacer.
- Archaic. an awkward or difficult situation.
hobbling 近义词
limp
cripple, restrict
更多hobbling例句
- There were little blond girls in knit hats next to elderly African American women hobbling on canes.
- This time, Strike is hobbling all over London searching for Owen Quine, an author gone with no warning and no word for 10 days.
- By the end, he was just a scared and broken man with a suicide vest—hobbling on a crutch, looking for a way out.
- The hobbling skirts and the exaggerated peplums and darts looked like the wild dreams of a woman … as envisioned by a man.
- We'll keep weeding out the troublesome ones, keep fattening and hobbling the submissive ones.
- I say, very nearly knocking down the old sweeper who was hobbling away as fast as posibil.
- There was not a soul to be seen, except an old beggar woman who was hobbling along, supporting herself with two sticks.
- Hobbling to the stove, she examined the battered tin can, letting the moonlight shine into its rusty depths.
- A man hobbling on a stick came in from the doctors room, and, seeing Kentucky, picked his way over the outstretched forms to him.
- When he returned, hobbling up with his tiny bundle, the backwoods world was rioting in the scarlet and gold of young October.