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(pl. noun) - What these were, we can only guess . . . They appear to be some kind of shackles imposed upon the loser of a race by the judges. Roger Ascham wrote in The Scholemaster (1570): "Some runners . . . deserve but the hopshackles."
--Robert Nares' Glossary of the Works of English Authors, 1859
January 14, 2018