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.
