walk lamely (verb)

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• hobble — verb Luke hobbled into the post office Syn: limp, walk with difficulty, walk lamely, move unsteadily, walk haltingly; shamble, totter, dodder, stagger, falter, stumble, lurch …   Thesaurus of popular words

• hirple — verb /ˈhəːpəl/ to walk with a limp, to drag a limb, to walk lamely; to move with a gait somewhere between walking and crawling. Get you on that bicycle and hurry on, and Ill hirple after you the best I can …   Wiktionary

• limp — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. limber, flaccid, flabby, soft. See softness. v. t. hobble, hitch; drag. See failure. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Without stiffness] Syn. pliant, soft, flaccid, flabby, formative, supple, pliable,… …   English dictionary for students

• limp — I 1. verb she limped out of the house Syn: hobble, walk with a limp, walk lamely, walk unevenly, walk haltingly, hitch, falter, stumble, lurch 2. noun walking with a limp Syn: lameness, a hobble, an uneven gait; Medicine c …   Thesaurus of popular words

• hobble — [c]/ˈhɒbəl / (say hobuhl) verb (hobbled, hobbling) –verb (i) 1. to walk lamely; limp. 2. to proceed irregularly and haltingly: hobbling verse. –verb (t) 3. to cause to limp. 4. to fasten together the legs of (a horse, etc.) so as to prevent free… …  

• limp — I. intransitive verb Etymology: probably from Middle English lympen to fall short; akin to Old English limpan to happen, lemphealt lame Date: circa 1570 1. a. to walk lamely; especially to walk favoring one leg b. to go unsteadily ; falter 2. to… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• hobble — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. shackle, bond, binding. v. limp, stagger; halt, bind, shackle, handicap, limit. See restraint, slowness, failure. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To restrict] Syn. clog, fetter, shackle; see hinder , restrain… …   English dictionary for students

• limp — English has two words limp, which perhaps share a common ancestry. Neither is particularly old. The verb first crops up in the 16th century (until then the word for ‘walk lamely’ had been halt, which now survives, barely, as an adjective). It was …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• limp — English has two words limp, which perhaps share a common ancestry. Neither is particularly old. The verb first crops up in the 16th century (until then the word for ‘walk lamely’ had been halt, which now survives, barely, as an adjective). It was …   Word origins

• limp — 1. noun a) An irregular, jerky or awkward gait b) A scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve 2 …   Wiktionary

• hobble — (v.) c.1300, hoblen to rock back and forth, toss up and down, probably related to its Dutch cognate hobbelen (which, however, is not recorded before late 15c.). Meaning to walk lamely is from c.1400. Transitive sense of tie the legs (of an… …   Etymology dictionary