Jog vs Hobble - What's the difference?
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To push slightly; to move or shake with a push or jerk, as to gain the attention of; to jolt.
* John Donne
* Alexander Pope
To shake, stir or rouse.
(exercise) To move in an energetic trot.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
* Robert Browning
To cause to move at an energetic trot.
To straighten stacks of paper by lightly tapping against a flat surface.
(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.
Jog is a related term of hobble.
As nouns the difference between jog and hobble
is that jog is a form of exercise, slower than a run; an energetic trot 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 verbs the difference between jog and hobble
is that jog is to push slightly; to move or shake with a push or jerk, as to gain the attention of; to jolt while hobble is to fetter by tying the legs; to restrict (a horse) with hobbles.jog
English
(wikipedia jog)Verb
(jogg)- jog one's elbow
- Now leaps he upright, jogs me, and cries: Do you see / Yonder well-favoured youth?
- Sudden I jogged Ulysses, who was laid / Fast by my side.
- I tried desperately to jog my memory.
- Jog' on, ' jog on, the footpath way.
- So hung his destiny, never to rot, / While he might still jog on and keep his trot.
- The good old ways our sires jogged safely over.
- to jog a horse
hobble
English
Noun
Synonyms
* tether (rope)Verb
- (Charles Dickens)
- The friar was hobbling the same way too.
- The hobbling versification, the mean diction.
