hopple
verbEtymology From hop; compare hobble.
1
To impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hobble.
2
Figuratively To entangle; to hamper.
- consider how we have such Faculties in us, as the Soul finds hoppled and fettered, clouded and obscured by her fatal residence in this prison of the Body1659, Henry More, The Immortality of the Soul, so Farre Forth as It is Demonstrable from the Knowledge of Nature and the Light of Reason, London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for William Morden […], →OCLC: