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shoemaker
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ 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 ...
Wikipedia
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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 .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person who makes or repairs shoes [syn: cobbler ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c. (mid-14c. as a surname), from shoe (n.) + maker .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Runner \Run"ner\, n. [From Run .] One who, or that which, runs; a racer. A detective. [Slang, Eng.] --Dickens. A messenger. --Swift. A smuggler. [Colloq.] --R. North. One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc. [Cant, U.S.] ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who makes shoes 2 The threadfish. 3 A fish, (taxlink Elagatis pinnulatis species noshow=1), the runner.
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.