vt fig.: to entangle; to hamper.
2. hopple ·noun a fetter for horses, or cattle, when turned out to graze;
chiefly used in the plural.
3. hopple ·vt to impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hamper; to hobble; as, to hopple an unruly or straying horse.