hobble chain
See also: hobble-chain
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- hobble-chain
Noun
hobble chain (plural hobble chains)
- (Australia) Chain used to fetter horses or cattle.
- 1889, Henry Lawson, "The Ballad of the Drover", in Poems and Stories by Henry Lawson, Raleigh, NC: Hayes Barton Press, 2006, p. 221,
- He hums a song of someone / He hopes to marry soon; / And hobble-chains and camp-ware / Keep jingling to the tune.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter XI, p. 173,
- According to his own statement, at about the age of seventeen, as the result of having been flogged by Grunter with a hobble-chain […] he crept on him one night and battered him with a nullah-nullah, leaving him for dead.
- 1992, Bryan Clark, Yammatji: Aboriginal Memories of the Gascoyne, Hesperian Press, p. 111
- "Old Pottsie, the boss, used to belt Yammatji with a hobble chain. He got my uncle and got the hobble chain and belted him with it. But my uncle never fell down, even when he got hit hard."
- 2014, Glen McLaren, Big Mobs: The Story of Australian Cattlemen, North Fremantle, WA: Fremantle Press, p. 46,
- Each bullock had a heavy leather neck-strap on, fitted with a hobble chain and swivel, and a spare rope around its neck.
- 1889, Henry Lawson, "The Ballad of the Drover", in Poems and Stories by Henry Lawson, Raleigh, NC: Hayes Barton Press, 2006, p. 221,