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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

One who hobbles.

Noun.

[OE. also

hobeler

, OF.

hobelier

, LL.

hobellarius

. See

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.

Noun.

One that hobbles.

Noun.

[from hobby.] One who by his tenure was to maintain a hobby for military service; or one who served as a soldier on a hobby with light armor.