chain hobble

English

Noun

chain hobble (plural chain hobbles)

1. hobble chain
   • 1923, George Washington Ogden, “Chapter 2”, in The Baron of Diamond Tail:

     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.