chain hobble

noun

noun

hobble chain

Along this unequal way, where loafers sat on whittled benches, lounged in doorways, leaned against porch props, Dan Gustin went pegging in his high-heeled boots like a mule in a Mexican chain hobble, holding a straight course for the hotel, past the doors of temptation.1923, George Washington Ogden, “Chapter 2”, in The Baron of Diamond Tail:

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