What's the difference between gobbler and hobbler?

Gobbler


Definition:

  • (n.) A turkey cock; a bubbling Jock.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Body weight values for 60 gobblers and 60 hens of 3 series of the turkey (Meleagris gallopavo silvestris) after data from Johnson (1953), Mosby and Handley (1943) are submitted to nonlinear regressions for selected functions of organismic growth.
  • (2) One such deformity called a turkey gobbler, is caused by an excess of flaccid submental skin and as an isolated defect is seen more commonly in men.
  • (3) At this moment, normally sensible people are cramming into Gobbler's Knob, the unfortunately named square in Punxsutawney, where they will spend tonight toasting marshmallows, waving banners, singing songs and waiting for the dispensation of wisdom from an outsized rodent with an overbite.

Hobbler


Definition:

  • (n.) One who hobbles.
  • (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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Strikers, Hobblers, Conchies and Reds: A Radical History of Bristol 1880-1939 (2014) As the cultural consensus in British society moved further and further to the right, it seemed that the efforts to create a wider, more democratically inclusive history from below had bitten the dust.

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