What's the difference between hobbler and limper?

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.

Limper


Definition:

  • (n.) One who limps.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The ink on polymer banknotes will eventually wear towards the end of their usable life, whereas paper banknotes become limper and heavily soiled,” says the Bank.
  • (2) For her co-curator, Karen Limper-Hertz, the star exhibit is a description of the gardens at Stowe in Buckinghamshire (Northampton, 1749), an instructive explanation of the Whig iconography of landscape architecture.

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