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Pet name for a draught horse or a farm horse
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dobbin
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dobbin \Dob"bin\, n. An old jaded horse. --Shak. Sea gravel mixed with sand. [Prov. Eng.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"farm horse," 1596 (in "Merchant of Venice"), probably from diminutive form of Dob (early 13c.), common Middle English familiar form of masc. proper name Robin or Robert ; personal name applied to a horse.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An old jaded horse. 2 (context UK dialect English) Sea gravel mixed with sand. 3 (cx dated slang among students English) (synonym of horse English) (qualifier illegitimate study aid English)
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Dobbin can refer to: Horse , as rural slang Dobbin may refer to the following people: Brian Dobbin (born 1966), a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player Craig Dobbin (1935–2006), Canadian businessman Dermot Dobbin , Canadian businessman Uncle Dobbin ...
Usage examples of dobbin.
William Dobbin retreated to a remote outhouse in the playground, where he passed a half-holiday in the bitterest sadness and woe.
Cuff, on a sunshiny afternoon, was in the neighbourhood of poor William Dobbin, who was lying under a tree in the playground, spelling over a favourite copy of the Arabian Nights which he had apart from the rest of the school, who were pursuing their various sports--quite lonely, and almost happy.
Dobbin, the despised grocer, was Alderman Dobbin--Alderman Dobbin was Colonel of the City Light Horse, then burning with military ardour to resist the French Invasion.
Their regiment had just come home, and the attachment of Dobbin to George Osborne was as warm and generous now as it had been when the two were schoolboys.
Osborne whispered to Dobbin, and at length the hour and the carriage arrived for Vauxhall.
And so while he paired off with Miss Sedley, and Jos squeezed through the gate into the gardens with Rebecca at his side, honest Dobbin contented himself by giving an arm to the shawls, and by paying at the door for the whole party.
Simpson, that kind smiling idiot, who, I daresay, presided even then over the place--Captain William Dobbin did not take the slightest notice.
The mated pairs were prattling away quite happily, and Dobbin knew he was as clean forgotten as if he had never existed in this world.
Osborne was just on the point of knocking down a gentleman in top-boots, who proposed to take advantage of this invitation, and a commotion seemed to be inevitable, when by the greatest good luck a gentleman of the name of Dobbin, who had been walking about the gardens, stepped up to the box.
Captain Dobbin shrewdly induced him to leave the gardens and hasten to Lambeth Palace, and, when once out of the gates, easily conveyed Mr.
Captain Dobbin declined to join Osborne in his daily visit to the young ladies in Russell Square.
Captain Dobbin, of course, to whom we were all so attentive, by the way, last night.
Mesdemoiselles Dobbin agreed so well as in their estimate of her very trifling merits: and their wonder that their brothers could find any charms in her.
Frederick to trample a hole in my muslin frock, as Captain Dobbin did in yours at Mrs.
He was seen lighting his cigar with one, to the horror of Captain Dobbin, who, it is my belief, would have given a bank-note for the document.