What does "hobble" mean?

Hobble: To move roughly or irregularly; -- said of style in writing. Prior. The hobbling versification, the mean diction. Jeffreys.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To fetter by tying the legs; to hopple; to clog. " They hobbled their horses." Dickens 2. To perplex; to embarrass.
  2. 3.An unequal gait; a limp; a halt; as, he has a hobble in his gait. Swift.
  3. 4.Same as Hopple.
  4. 5.Difficulty; perplexity; embarrassment. Waterton.

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