In the most elaborate versions, fake legs, meant to be those of the rider, hang down the sides of the skirt, though this seems to be a fairly recent development. The "rider" may wear a cape or other flowing costume to help cover the frame. The frame has a carved wooden head, often with snapping jaws (operated by pulling a string) attached to it at one end, and a tail at the other.
A circular or oval frame is suspended around their waist, or chest, with a skirt draped over it hanging down to the ground. Tourney horses are meant to look like a person riding a small horse that is wearing a long cloth coat or caparison (as seen in medieval illustrations of jousting knights at a tourney or tournament).The types most frequently found in the United Kingdom have been categorised as follows: Hobby horses may be constructed in several different ways. The Border horses, called hobblers or hobbies, were small and active, and trained to cross the most difficult and boggy country, "and to get over where our footmen could scarce dare to follow", according to George MacDonald Fraser, The Steel Bonnets, The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers. John Lingard, The History of England, (1819), vol. Hobblers were another description of cavalry more lightly armed, and taken from the class of men rated at 15 pounds and upwards. Henry Spelman (d. 1641) derived the word from "hobby". (Old French, hober, to move up and down our hobby, q.v.) In medieval times their duties were to reconnoitre, to carry intelligence, to harass stragglers, to act as spies, to intercept convoys, and to pursue fugitives. Hoblers or Hovellers were men who kept a light nag that they may give instant information of threatened invasion. Samuel Johnson, Dictionary of the English Language, 1755, glosses: "A strong, active horse, of a middle size, said to have been originally from Ireland an ambling nag." vii." Another familiar form of the same Christian name, Dobbin, has also become a generic name for a cart-horse.
This appears to have been a name customarily given to a cart-horse, as attested by White Kennett in his Parochial Antiquities (1695), who stated that "Our ploughmen to some one of their cart-horses generally give the name of Hobin, the very word which Phil. OED connects it to "the by-name Hobin, Hobby", a variant of Robin" (compare the abbreviation Hob for Robert). But the Old French term is apparently adopted from English rather than vice versa. Old French had hobin or haubby, whence Modern French aubin and Italian ubino. The word is attested in English from the 14th century, as Middle English hobyn. The word hobby is glossed by the OED as "a small or middle-sized horse an ambling or pacing horse a pony".
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