Falter vs Hobble - What's the difference?
falter | hobble |
unsteadiness.
To waver or be unsteady.
* Wiseman
(ambitransitive) To stammer; to utter with hesitation, or in a weak and trembling manner.
* Byron
* Milton
To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; said of the mind or of thought.
* I. Taylor
To stumble.
(figuratively) To lose faith or vigor; to doubt or abandon (a cause).
*
To hesitate in purpose or action.
* Shakespeare
To cleanse or sift, as barley.
(en noun) (usually in plural )
Short straps tied between the legs of unfenced horses, allowing them to wander short distances but preventing them from running off.
An unsteady, off-balance step.
To fetter by tying the legs; to restrict (a horse) with hobbles.
To walk lame, or unevenly.
* Dryden
(figurative) To move roughly or irregularly.
* Jeffreys
To perplex; to embarrass.
As nouns the difference between falter and hobble
is that falter is butterfly while hobble is short straps tied between the legs of unfenced horses, allowing them to wander short distances but preventing them from running off.As a verb hobble is
to fetter by tying the legs; to restrict (a horse) with hobbles.falter
English
Noun
(-)Verb
(en verb)- He found his legs falter .
- And here he faltered forth his last farewell.
- With faltering speech and visage incomposed.
- Here indeed the power of disinct conception of space and distance falters .
- And remember, comrades, your resolution must never falter .
- Ere her native king / Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms.
- (Halliwell)
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hobble
English
Noun
Synonyms
* tether (rope)Verb
- (Charles Dickens)
- The friar was hobbling the same way too.
- The hobbling versification, the mean diction.