hopple

How To Use hopple In A Sentence

• When it began to grow light he looked down, and there were the three narts, who, having hoppled their horses and turned them out to graze, were themselves resting under the tree. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science
• The little maples and beeches flung their sprays of vivid green foliage above the darker shades of the witch hopple into the soft-lighted air of the great house of the wood and filled it with a pleasant odor. In the Days of Poor Richard
• In turning out pack animals to graze, it is well either to keep the lariat ropes upon them with the ends trailing upon the ground, or to hopple them, as no corral can be made into which they may be driven in order to catch them. The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions
• It's not a hobble (hopple) hanger (an aid to keep the horse on gait almost always used only with pacers;trotters rarely use them). Oslo Grand Prix: Horserse
• And then the horses were immediately hoppled, four feet tied together, and turned out of camp and a guard placed beyond them, to keep them from straying too far or drive them in if attacked. Autobiography of John Ball - Across the Plains to Oregon, 1832
• We tie him to a tree, and hopple his fore and hind feet, lest he may struggle. The Scalp Hunters
• My horse, well trained to such tactics stayed where I had dismounted, without tie or hopple. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse
• Two methods of hoppling are practiced among the Indians and hunters of the West: one with a strap about two feet long buckling around the fore legs above the fetlock joints; the other is what they term the "_side hopple_" which is made by buckling a strap around a front and rear leg upon the same side. The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions
• The horses, after two hours 'grazing, were led into the timber and hoppled. To The Front A Sequel to Cadet Days
• Our guide’s horse strayed, though hoppled, in the night, and after searching some time for him his footsteps were discovered in the path going back, whereupon my kind companion went off in the rain, and after about seven hours returned with him. VIII. 1761, 1762