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hobbles

English

Noun

hobbles

  1. plural of hobble

Verb

hobbles

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hobble

Anagrams

  • hobbels

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hobbler

English

Etymology

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

Noun

hobbler (plural hobblers)

  1. 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.
  2. (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
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir J. Davies to this entry?)
  3. An unlicensed pilot, casual dock labourer, etc.
  4. A man who tows a canal boat with a rope.

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