† ˈcaball Obs.
Also 5 cabylle, 6 cable, cabill.
[ad. L. caball-us horse, or rather an assimilation of the word caple, capul, capil (which was in much earlier use, and is still dialectal) to the original L. form.]
A horse.
| c 1450 Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 697 Hic caballus, a cabylle. 1515 Barclay Eglogues (1570) C iij/4 But the stronge Caball standeth at the racke. 1518 Rental Bk. Earl Kildare in Trans. Kilkenny Archæol. Soc. Ser. ii. IV. 123 Every howse hawing a cabill to draw to Dublyn quarterly. 1538–48 Elyot Lat. Dict., Caballus, a horse; yet in some partes of England they do call an horse a cable. 1570 Levins Manip. 1 A cable, horse, caballus. A caple, idem. 1623 Cockeram, Caball, a little horse, a jade. 1650 T. Bayly Herba Parietis 73 This cavalliers caball was unwilling to clime. |