hobblers

Go ask the Earl of Oxford for a hundred men-at-arms and as many hobblers, that you may ride round the mound yonder, and so fall upon them unseen.

Sir Nigel Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1906

Behind the knights, who were forbidden to scatter and must always follow the King's person, there was a body of twenty or thirty hobblers or mounted bowmen, together with several squires, unarmed themselves but leading spare horses upon which the heavier part of their knights 'equipment was carried.

Sir Nigel Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1906

Go ask the Earl of Oxford for a hundred men-at-arms and as many hobblers, that you may ride round the mound yonder, and so fall upon them unseen.

Sir Nigel Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

Behind the knights, who were forbidden to scatter and must always follow the King's person, there was a body of twenty or thirty hobblers or mounted bowmen, together with several squires, unarmed themselves but leading spare horses upon which the heavier part of their knights 'equipment was carried.

Sir Nigel Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

Special efforts were made to equip the army, and lovers of ancient precedent were dismayed when the king called upon all men of property to equip archers, hobblers, or men-at-arms, according to their substance, that they might serve abroad at the king's wages.

The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) Reginald Lane Poole 1892

Here aged hobblers and white-haired seniors, bowed mothers and women advanced in years, walled round him in happy throng.

Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England 1886

It didn't like competing against Microsoft, so it called in the Clinton Administration's legal hobblers to help.

The Rule of Reason 2010

It didn't like competing against Microsoft, so it called in the Clinton Administration's legal hobblers to help.

The Rule of Reason 2010

That's a pretty good hypothesis but I posed this scenario: Perhaps hobblers knit.

Sandy's Knitting 2008

There was a small group of us hobblers that had plenty to keep us occupied while waiting to heal.

Sandy's Knitting 2008