Definition of Hobbers

1. hobber [n] - See also: hobber

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hobbers

hoaxster
hoaxter
hoazin
hoazins
hob
hob-nailed
hob-nob
hobbarddehoy
hobbarddehoys
hobbardehoy
hobbardehoys
hobbed
hobbedehoy
hobbedehoys
hobber
hobbers (current term)
hobbetyhoy
hobbies
hobbing
hobbish
hobbism
hobbist
hobbit
hobbitlike
hobbitry
hobbits
hobbitses
hobbity
hobble
hobble-bush

Literary usage of Hobbers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Machinist Gear Book: Simplified Tables and Formulas for Designing by Charles Hays Logue, Reginald Trautschold (1922)
"With rack tooth machines and hobbers the generated teeth are obviously free from the involute interference of rack and pinion and that of externally meshing ..."

2. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes, Henry George Bohn (1890)
"... two noted hobbers and Highwaymen. Loud. 1752,8vo. Probably an extract from Johnson's Lives of the Highwaymen. ..."

3. The Rhine from Rotterdam to Constance: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1892)
"Schiller's (¡ret pieces, the'hobbers', 'Fiesco', and 'Cabal and Love', were performed here \vith the co-operation of Iffland and partly under hie own ..."

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