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hobble

1. a strap, rope, etc., used to hobble a horse
2. a castrated ferret
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Rice said: "He's in a brace and he's hobbling. It looked like a twist with the ball, his knee just gave way.
Cue Ellen hobbling on stage complete with fluorescent pink cast.
Just as I was hobbling back, someone walked into the restroom and saw me ...
But for many, backache goes hand in hand with gardening and can leave them hobbling about for weeks or lying flat on their back in an effort to ease the pain.
And Bellamy proved a constant threat to the Mallorca defence just eight days after hobbling out of the action against third round opponents Valerenga.
Their awkward, hobbling rhythms have an atom-splitting speed, and the dance itself has a sad, sickening force.
The continued growth of illegal downloading hobbling the entire music industry heavily impacts Latin America, where the bulk of Surco's sales come from.
Though their work would later be derided by Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright as hobbling America's organic architectural movement, the fair's primary architects Daniel Burnham and John Root oversaw the creation of neoclassical buildings that awed visitors, some of whom broke down weeping when they caught sight of what came to be known as the White City.
Police said they were still searching for the suspect, who was last seen hobbling away down the street.
Then one Sunday morning at a coffee shop in the heart of Chicago's Boystown, I read Andrew Sullivan's November 10, 1996, New York Times Magazine cover story, "When Plagues End." He described friends who months before had been "hobbling along, their cheekbones poking out of their skin, their eyes deadened and looking down." Upon taking these new drugs, they "were suddenly restored into some strange spectacle of health, gazing around as amazed as I was to see them alive."
SINGLE Invalid Bloke has been hobbling round our house all week.