Definition of "hopple" []

• A fetter for horses, or cattle, when turned out to graze; -- chiefly used in the plural. (noun)

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• "It's not a hobble (hopple) hanger (an aid to keep the horse on gait almost always used only with pacers;trotters rarely use them)."
• "The little maples and beeches flung their sprays of vivid green foliage above the darker shades of the witch hopple into the soft-lighted air of the great house of the wood and filled it with a pleasant odor."
• "Smith led him to the edge of the bog, knelt down, drew aside a branch of witch-hopple."