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Subject: [ENG-SOM] Hobbler?
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 20:04:30 -0500
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Chris, according to Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA,
Inc.:

"Hobbler \Hob"bler\, n. [OE. also hobeler, OF. hobelier, LL. hobellarius. See Hobby
a horse.] (Eng. Hist.) 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. --Hallam. Sir J. Davies.

J.A. Lacombe's List of Occupations at http://cpcug.org/user/jlacombe/terms.html,
a hobbler is defined as "boat tower on a river or canal."

On Rodney Hall's site http://rmhh.co.uk/h.html: " Hobbler / Hobler 1) Towed river
or canal boats 2) Casual dock labourer 3) Unlicensed pilot."

And on Tony and Lynda Langham's site at
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~tonylangham/hoc.htm : "A person who was employed to
tow a boat on the rivers or canals."

Best wishes,

Lynne


Chris Salter wrote:

> Hi,
>
> What was a hobbler?
>
> Here in Wales a hobble is a job done on the side (and not declared) was
> this the same sort of thing?

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