DOBBIE

also DOBBY

DEFINITIONS CONTINUED
NOUNS
2. a household sprite or apparition supposed to haunt certain premises or localities, with powers of either good or evil; a ghost, a spectre (dialect)
3. a familiar and pet name for 'Robert" (dialect)
4. a worsted stuff (dialect)
5. in weaving, an attachment to a loom for weaving small figures (i.e. from twelve to thirty-six threads), similar in principle to the Jacquard attachment 

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ETYMOLOGY
perhaps a playful application of the proper name Dobbie, diminutive of Dob, altered forms of Robbie, Rob

EXAMPLE
From: Waverley Novels
Vol. XXVIII
Peveril of the Peak. Chapter X
By Sir Walter Scott, Printed 1833