I said: > This is getting more interesting, I've also googled and come up with: > > Hobbler: Casual canal workers who could be employed to help at a lock flight, > or to leg through a tunnel > > but also, elsewhere, a reference to a casual labourer who towed boats on > rivers or canals. > > I'll keep digging through my original source.
Info from my source confirms Hobbler and that from a man who claimed to be one (via another contact). I wonder if Hobbler and Huffler were just regional variations of the same thing. Roger
