Hopple vs. Popple — What's the Difference?

A fetter for horses or cattle when turned out to graze.

To move in a tossing, bubbling, or rippling manner, as choppy water.

(transitive) To impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hobble.

Choppy water.

To entangle; to hamper.

The motion or sound of boiling liquid.

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.

A poplar.

Fig.: To entangle; to hamper.

(dialect) poplar

A fetter for horses, or cattle, when turned out to graze; - chiefly used in the plural.

Choppy water; the motion or sound of agitated water (as from boiling or wind).

Strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the like-sided legs moving in unison;

Of water, to move in a choppy, bubbling, or tossing manner.

To move quickly up and down; to bob up and down, like a cork on rough water.

To move quickly up and down; to bob up and down, as a cork on rough water; also, to bubble.

The poplar.

Tares.