Middle English Dictionary Entry
hobin n.
Entry Info
| Forms | hobin n. |
| Etymology | Dim. of Robert; cp. Hobbe & Robin. OF haubby & hobin are borrowings from English, L hobinus merely the English or French word in Latin guise. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. hobī n.
1.
A small ambling horse; ?also, a light-armed horseman [1st quot.].
Associated quotations
- (1298) Barth.Cotton Hist.Angl.in RS 16 (Nero C.5)344 : Habebant equos coopertos mille quingentos et de hobyns quingentos, et pedites ducentos sexaginta milia.
- [ (1299-1300) Wardrobe Acc.Edw.I in PSAL (1787)180 : Hugoni de Karliolo, pro restauro unius hobini albi, appreciati in guerra Scocie..[etc.] ]
- (1345-9) Wardrobe Acc.Edw.III(1) in Archaeol.3198 : vj frena pro hobyns.
- (1347-8) RParl.2.212a : Deus hobyns queux il luy avoit purchace en Irlaund.
- (a1350) in Beltz Garter383 : i Hobyn voc' Dun Crump.
- (a1350) in Beltz Garter384 : i eq. voc' Lyard Hobyn.