Cobbled vs Hobbled - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between cobbled and hobbled

is that cobbled is past tense of cobble while hobbled is past tense of hobble.

is laid with cobbles.

(head)

(cobble)

(head)

(of a road surface) Laid with cobbles.

Crudely or roughly assembled; put together in an improvised way, (as in "cobbled together")

(head)

(hobble)

(en noun) (usually in plural )

Short straps tied between the legs of unfenced horses, allowing them to wander short distances but preventing them from running off.

An unsteady, off-balance step.

* tether (rope)

To fetter by tying the legs; to restrict (a horse) with hobbles.

(Charles Dickens)

To walk lame, or unevenly.

* Dryden

The friar was hobbling the same way too.

(figurative) To move roughly or irregularly.

* Jeffreys

The hobbling versification, the mean diction.

To perplex; to embarrass.

* hobble skirt * hobbly * unhobble