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Journey vs Hobble - What's the difference?

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Journey is a related term of hobble.


As nouns the difference between journey and hobble

is that journey is a set amount of travelling, seen as a single unit; a discrete trip, a voyage 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 journey and hobble

is that journey is to travel, to make a trip or voyage while hobble is to fetter by tying the legs; to restrict (a horse) with hobbles.

journey

Noun

(en noun)
  • A set amount of travelling, seen as a single unit; a discrete trip, a voyage.
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  • (label) A day.
  • (label) A day's travelling; the distance travelled in a day.
  • (label) A day's work.
  • *:
  • *:But whan ye haue done that Iourney ye shal promyse me as ye are a true knyght for to go with me and to helpe me / and other damoysels that are distressid dayly with a fals knyghte / All your entente damoysel and desyre I wylle fulfylle / soo ye wyl brynge me vnto this knyghte
  • Hyponyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To travel, to make a trip or voyage.
  • Synonyms

    * (l)

    hobble

    English

    Noun

  • (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.
  • Synonyms

    * tether (rope)

    Verb

  • To fetter by tying the legs; to restrict (a horse) with hobbles.
  • (Charles Dickens)
  • To walk lame, or unevenly.
  • * Dryden
  • The friar was hobbling the same way too.
  • (figurative) To move roughly or irregularly.
  • * Jeffreys
  • The hobbling versification, the mean diction.
  • To perplex; to embarrass.
  • Derived terms

    * hobble skirt * hobbly * unhobble