different between hobbler vs hobiler

English

Old English also hobeler, Old French hobelier, Latin hobellarius. See hobby (“a horse”).

hobbler (plural hobblers)

One who hobbles.
- 2005, Maureen Rylance, The Spur on the Plate
  The horse was one of the finest I had seen, not a hobbler. This was a far more delicate creature.
(Britain, historical) One who by his tenure was to maintain a horse for military service; a kind of light-horseman in the Middle Ages who was mounted on a hobby.
- 1954, James Francis Lydon, The hobelar: An Irish contribution to medieval warfare, Irish Sword, II, v, pp. 12–16.
  - However superior the Norman knight might be upon the field of battle, the bogs and woods of Ireland gave little opportunity for the mail-clad charge. Thus there evolved in Ireland, as a habitual part of every Anglo-Norman force, a type of light horseman, which came to be known as the hobelar.
- 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England
  no man shall be constrained to find men at arms, hobblers, nor archers, other than those who hold by such service
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An unlicensed pilot, casual dock labourer, etc.
A man who tows a canal boat with a rope.

See hobbler.

hobiler (plural hobilers)

(obsolete) A light horseman.
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