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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
shoemaker
noun
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▪ But the shoemaker was left with good luck.
▪ He married Betsy Adcock, the daughter of a Whittington shopkeeper, and their young William became an apprentice shoemaker in 1796.
▪ It replaces traditional drawing abilities yet it can preserve the centuries of craft skills built up by shoemakers.
▪ She helped the shoemaker sell shoes.
▪ The reference to Death on a pale horse in the Apocalypse, and the shoemaker?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
shoemaker

Runner \Run"ner\, n. [From Run.]

  1. One who, or that which, runs; a racer.

  2. A detective. [Slang, Eng.]
    --Dickens.

  3. A messenger.
    --Swift.

  4. A smuggler. [Colloq.]
    --R. North.

  5. One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc. [Cant, U.S.]

  6. (Bot.) A slender trailing branch which takes root at the joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the strawberry and the common cinquefoil.

  7. The rotating stone of a set of millstones.

  8. (Naut.) A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle.
    --Totten.

  9. One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.

  10. (Founding)

    1. A horizontal channel in a mold, through which the metal flows to the cavity formed by the pattern; also, the waste metal left in such a channel.

    2. A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed.

  11. The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.

  12. (Zo["o]l.) A food fish ( Elagatis pinnulatus) of Florida and the West Indies; -- called also skipjack, shoemaker, and yellowtail. The name alludes to its rapid successive leaps from the water.

  13. (Zo["o]l.) Any cursorial bird.

  14. (Mech.)

    1. A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone.

    2. A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
shoemaker

late 14c. (mid-14c. as a surname), from shoe (n.) + maker.

Wiktionary
shoemaker

n. 1 A person who makes shoes 2 The threadfish. 3 A fish, (taxlink Elagatis pinnulatis species noshow=1), the runner.

WordNet
shoemaker

n. a person who makes or repairs shoes [syn: cobbler]

Wikipedia
Shoemaker (disambiguation)

A shoemaker is a person making shoes.

Shoemaker may also refer to:

  • Shoemaker (surname)
  • NEAR Shoemaker, a NASA mission to study 433 Eros
Shoemaker (lunar crater)

Shoemaker is a lunar crater that is located near the southern pole of the Moon, within half a crater diameter of Shackleton. It lies to the south of the crater Malapert, to the east of Haworth, and just to the west of the similar-sized Faustini. The rim of Shoemaker is circular and worn, with some small craters along the inner wall. Due to the lack of illumination (it is a crater of eternal darkness), the albedo of the interior floor surface remains unknown.

Prior to being given its current name by the IAU, this formation had been informally named Mawson (after the Antarctic explorer Douglas Mawson). It was officially named Shoemaker in honor of Eugene Shoemaker, the geologist whose remains were on board the Lunar Prospector spacecraft that impacted this crater floor.

Shoemaker (film)

Shoemaker is a Canadian drama film, released in 1996. It was directed by Colleen Murphy, written by Jaan Kolk and produced by Elizabeth Yake by Subjective Eye and the Canadian Film Centre.

Shoemaker (surname)
  • Ann Shoemaker (1891–1978), American actress
  • Benjamin Shoemaker (1704–c. 1767), mayor of Philadelphia during the 18th century
  • Bill Shoemaker (1931–2003), American jockey
  • Brad Shoemaker, Video Game journalist employed by Giant Bomb
  • Carolyn S. Shoemaker (born 1929), astronomer and co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9
  • Charles F. Shoemaker (1841–1913), Commandant from 1895 through 1905 of the United States Revenue Cutter Service
  • Craig Shoemaker (born 1958), American comedian
  • Douglas Harlow Shoemaker (1905–1985), last Chief Engineer of the Northern Pacific Railway
  • Eugene Merle Shoemaker (1928–1997), planetary scientist and co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9
  • Francis Shoemaker, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota during the 1930s
  • Henry W. Shoemaker (1880–1958), American folklorist, diplomat, and writer
  • Jarrod Shoemaker (born 1982), American triathlete
  • Jenna Shoemaker (born 1984), American professional triathlete
  • John Shoemaker (born 1956), American baseball coach and manager
  • Lazarus Denison Shoemaker (1819–1893), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania during the 1870s
  • Matt Shoemaker (born 1986) American baseball player
  • Mike Shoemaker (born 1945), politician from Ohio
  • Myrl Shoemaker (1913–1985), former lieutenant governor of Ohio and father of Mike Shoemaker
  • Nelson Shoemaker (1911–2003), former member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, Canada
  • Robert M. Shoemaker (born 1924), U.S. Army general
  • Sam Shoemaker (1893–1963), American reverend and co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous
  • Sydney Shoemaker (born 1931), American philosopher
  • Sylvia Browne (1936–2013), born Sylvia Celeste Shoemaker, American author
  • Trina Shoemaker, music producer and technician

Category:English-language surnames

Usage examples of "shoemaker".

The shoemaker, seeing that Henriette spoke only French, begged to recommend a teacher of languages.

Shoemakers were then a very drucken set, but his beasts keepit him frae them.

A voice in the crowd volunteered that the man could well be Joss Gappy, an apprentice shoemaker from New Cobblers.

He sailed with his family for Rio in a small vessel, and the voyage could not have been one of the least of the dangers, for the skipper was a Guacho who had been a shoemaker, and knew nothing about seafaring, and there was not a spare rope in the ship.

Opposite the house in which he had taken his lodging resided a shoemaker, by name Jerome Farusi, with his wife Marzia, and Zanetta, their only daughter--a perfect beauty sixteen years of age.

Two years later she married a shoemaker, by name Pigozzo--a base, arrant knave who beggared and ill-treated her to such an extent that her brother had to take her home and to provide for her.

The dressmaker set to work, the shoemaker took her measure, and I told him to bring some slippers.

The shoemaker, who spoke French, was talking the usual nonsense of dealers, when she interrupted him to ask the valet, who was standing familiarly in the room, what he wanted.

It was Magg himself, come with the shoemaker, who stood humbly behind him.

Taran sat down on a wooden stool and, as Magg departed from the chamber, the shoemaker drew near.

The Lattimore ladies had patronized fabric warehouses, plumassiers, milliners, and shoemakers.

One of the tithingmen, Ezekial Shoemaker, took a group of grim-looking men on horseback to try to block escape downriver, while the other, Hiram Peaseman, kept his men with Purity as they walked the path that the witches must have taken.

Over the walls of the Mellah, from the direction of the Spanish inn at the entrance to the little tortuous quarter of the shoemakers, there came at intervals a hubbub of voices, and occasionally wild shouts and cries.

But the only one who saw the splendour was a shoemaker, who rubbed his rosiny hands together, and felt happy without knowing why.

Cowan speaks of a shoemaker of twenty-two who experienced an attack of constant singultus for a week, and then intermittent attacks for six years.