"hobble chain" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1889, Henry Lawson, “The Ballad of the Drover”, in Poems and Stories by Henry Lawson, Raleigh, NC: Hayes Barton Press, published 2006, page 221:",
          "text": "He hums a song of someone / He hopes to marry soon; / And hobble-chains and camp-ware / Keep jingling to the tune.",
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          "ref": "1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia, page 173:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "1992, Bryan Clark, Yammatji: Aboriginal Memories of the Gascoyne, Hesperian Press, p. 111 https://books.google.ca/books?id=C_UXAQAAMAAJ&q=%22hobble-chain%22&dq=%22hobble-chain%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiGtu6WvPrMAhVBSGMKHUF0BHoQ6AEIygEwHw\n\"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.\""
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          "ref": "2014, Glen McLaren, Big Mobs: The Story of Australian Cattlemen, North Fremantle, WA: Fremantle Press, page 46:",
          "text": "Each bullock had a heavy leather neck-strap on, fitted with a hobble chain and swivel, and a spare rope around its neck.",
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        "Chain used to fetter horses or cattle."
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          "fetter"
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          "horse",
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        "(Australia) Chain used to fetter horses or cattle."
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        {
          "word": "hobble-chain"
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          "ref": "1889, Henry Lawson, “The Ballad of the Drover”, in Poems and Stories by Henry Lawson, Raleigh, NC: Hayes Barton Press, published 2006, page 221:",
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          "ref": "1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia, page 173:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "1992, Bryan Clark, Yammatji: Aboriginal Memories of the Gascoyne, Hesperian Press, p. 111 https://books.google.ca/books?id=C_UXAQAAMAAJ&q=%22hobble-chain%22&dq=%22hobble-chain%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiGtu6WvPrMAhVBSGMKHUF0BHoQ6AEIygEwHw\n\"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.\""
        },
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          "ref": "2014, Glen McLaren, Big Mobs: The Story of Australian Cattlemen, North Fremantle, WA: Fremantle Press, page 46:",
          "text": "Each bullock had a heavy leather neck-strap on, fitted with a hobble chain and swivel, and a spare rope around its neck.",
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      "word": "hobble-chain"
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