hob

1) The shoe or metal runner of a sledge.

The noun is on record in Yorkshire from 1788. The verb occurs in the constable’s accounts for Almondbury: 1747 Pd John Sykes for hobbing a Sledge and a barrow mending 2s 6d.

places Almondbury
dates 1747

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