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Whats a Dobbler?
Tue, 25 Oct 2005 16:58:40 GMT
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CWatters...
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Elsewhere someone refers to "The Dobbler's Inn" and asks what a Dobbler is?
The sign has a man with a horse and cart. Possibly a rag-n-bone man? Anyone
know?
Charles Ellson...
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A "dobbin" was originally a cart-horse, so (also taking the nature of
the sign into account) a "dobbler" sounds like an alternative word for
a carter. Which end of which country is the above inn?
Charles Ellson...
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Dobbler and Cambridge seems to lead via web-search to a cached reference
from the Cambridge News in 2001 to " 'Dobbler's Hole' a rubbish-strewn
rag and bone yard." mentioned WRT someone from Cambridge so it looks
like your first guess was right.
The pub football team, Dobblers DC, has a link from:-
to
giving a different meaning for "dobbler" (a variation of a marble) but
considering the Cambridge News explanation and the inn-sign I suspect
that is more likely a coincident word.
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Paul C...
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Someone who dobbles.
Michael Corby...
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A dobbler is a de-ceased cobbler.
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Jeff...
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Totally irrelevant to this query but I remember an old
midwife referring to the instrument used to monitor foetal
heartbeat as a dobbler.
Clare L...
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Are you sure she didn't mean a doppler?
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Peter Thomas...
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Where is it?
Peter Thomas...
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So that rules out the occupation of Doubler - found in Tin-plate
Works.
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