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Hopple vs Topple - What's the difference?

hopple | topple |

As verbs the difference between hopple and topple

is that hopple is to impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hobble while topple is to push, throw over, overturn or overthrow something.

As a noun hopple

is a fetter for horses or cattle when turned out to graze.

hopple

English

Noun

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

    • Verb

    (hoppl)
  • To impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hobble.
  • (figurative) To entangle; to hamper.

    • topple

    English

    Verb

    (toppl)
  • to push, throw over, overturn or overthrow something
  • * The massed crowds toppled the statue of the former dictator
  • to totter and fall, or to lean as if about to do so
  • * The pile of pennies began to topple

    • Anagrams

    * English ergative verbs