hopple
See also: Hopple
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hopple (plural hopples)
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hopple (third-person singular simple present hopples, present participle hoppling, simple past and past participle hoppled)
- (transitive) To impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hobble.
- (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[ames] 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
- inflection of hoppeln: