How To Use Hopple In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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We tie him to a tree, and hopple his fore and hind feet, lest he may struggle.
The Scalp Hunters
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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
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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
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The horses, after two hours 'grazing, were led into the timber and hoppled.
To The Front A Sequel to Cadet Days
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Our guides 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
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The people of the territories are denied the power to form State governments unless they consent to fasten upon them the slave-hopple, the iron wristlet, and the neck-spike.
Supplementary Prose, from Complete Prose Works (1892)
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I was on my feet with the dawn, but my mule was nowhere to be seen, though I had hoppled her well with my bridle reins.
A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872
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Then each man would bring in the horses he had charge of, keep them still hoppled and tie them to short stakes carried with us, driven close into the ground, giving each one as much room as could be without interfering with others, so that they could feed also during the night.
Autobiography of John Ball - Across the Plains to Oregon, 1832
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Now this circus is only a little more than two miles off," said he, "and here I am cooped up like a hoppled horse.
Harper's Young People, February 10, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly
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Smith led him to the edge of the bog, knelt down, drew aside a branch of witch-hopple.
The Flaming Jewel
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The latter plan is the best, because the animal, side-hoppled, is able to go but little faster than a walk, while the front hopple permits him, after a little practice, to gallop off at considerable speed.
The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions
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I've got to have him," said Billy, as he returned to his hoppled prizes and began to drive them toward the fort.
Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure, Vol. I, No. 1. Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood
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So we side-lined and hoppled, we belled and we staked,
Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads
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Into their midst he went and a good horse was picked out and lariated in the twinkling of an eye and quickly hoppled and turned loose.
Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure, Vol. I, No. 1. Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood
