Hobble vs Teeter - What's the difference?
hobble | teeter |
(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 verbs the difference between hobble and teeter
is that hobble is to fetter by tying the legs; to restrict (a horse) with hobbles while teeter is to tilt back and forth on an edge.As a noun hobble
is short straps tied between the legs of unfenced horses, allowing them to wander short distances but preventing them from running off.hobble
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* tether (rope)Verb
- (Charles Dickens)
- The friar was hobbling the same way too.
- The hobbling versification, the mean diction.