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Definition of Hobbler
1. Noun. Someone who has a limp and walks with a hobbling gait.
Definition of Hobbler
1. n. One who hobbles.
2. n. 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.
Definition of Hobbler
1. Noun. One who hobbles. ¹
2. Noun. (UK 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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hobbler
1. one that hobbles [n -S] - See also: hobbles
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hobbler
Literary usage of Hobbler
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Shipping & Shipbuilding Directory by Shipping world & shipbuilder (1890)
"hobbler over the bar, to or from the Layer or Giant's Grave, or the southern end of
... hobbler employed in removing or assisting vessels within the harb. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1885)
"hobbler, as no one knows better than you, is a simple martinet among upper ...
No, I was thinking of a very different individual; but then, like hobbler, ..."
3. The Childishness and Brutality of the Time: Some Plain Truths in Plain by Hargrave Jennings (1883)
"The god of love, in truth, for some time had not had a "hobbling" eye upon hobbler.
And though beer barrels and taps, and spigots and caps would appear at ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"hobbler, an unlicensed pilot; a man who tows in a vessel with ropes. ... Hobble,
the share each hobbler gets when they bring in a vessel. ..."
5. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1898)
"I was talking to my old friend General hobbler about some lines I dashed off for
him in the year 1806, when we were at the Cape, and, Gad, he remembered ..."
6. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: in twenty-four volumes. by William Makepeace Thackeray (1868)
"I was talking to my old friend General hobbler about some lines I dashed off for
him in the year 1806, when we were at the Cape, and, Gad, he remembered ..."
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