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Mender of boots and shoes
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cobbler
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Word definitions for cobbler in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cobbler \Cob"bler\, n. A mender of shoes. --Addison. A clumsy workman. --Shak. A beverage. See Sherry cobbler , under Sherry . Cobbler fish (Zo["o]l.), a marine fish ( Blepharis crinitus ) of the Atlantic. The name alludes to its threadlike fin rays.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Also patrons to cobblers, saddlers, shoemakers, and tanners. ▪ But cobblers and laundry owners could be in trouble, and tobacco products should be avoided altogether. ▪ Dinner consists of salad, barbecue and beans with a warm ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who repairs shoes. 2 A person who lays cobbles 3 A kind of pie, usually filled with fruit, that lacks a base crust. 4 (context slang usually plural English) A police officer. 5 An alcoholic drink containing spirit or wine, with sugar and lemon ...
Usage examples of cobbler.
And Joe had learned that among the people Haj Harun visited on his yearly rounds in the Holy City, along with the nameless cobbler near Damascus Gate whose cubbyhole Haj Harun could never find, along with the nameless muttering man who ceaselessly paced back and forth on the steps to the crypt in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, along with them there had once been a pious linguistic genius with whom Haj Harun had conversed in Aramaic, the language spoken in Palestine two and three thousand years ago.
But no more convoluted than the situation itself, which is those alleys near Damascus Gate where Haj Harun has been on the lookout for his cobbler friend these last two thousand five hundred years.
Fatty felt certain that with that opening he could soon find out if the cobbler had any customers with really enormous feet.
He longed to tell the cobbler who he waswhat a shock for him that would be.
Thought about going to see the cobbler and everything, just as we did.
The cobbler was rightthe Colonel certainly wore size twelve or thirteen boots.
We visited the cobbler for information about big shoes and he told us about Colonel Cross.
Among the human driftwood gathered here there was one old man who had been a cobbler, working at his trade as long as he had strength to do so.
The old cobbler lived on the memory of these visits through the lonely weeks that followed them, looking forward to them as the only bright spots in his sorrowful life.
Tode down beside him, and the old cobbler, the child and the man of God, bowed their heads together.
No fellow can help having a cobbler for a grandfather, of course: but he need not be such a fool as to volunteer any mention of the fact spontaneously.
There was a cobbler at his elbow, and a wheelwright, and a butcher, and one or two other aspiring gentlefolk from the market fringe.
By the time Asa finished his third helping of cobbler, he felt like he sat in the middle of a powder keg.
I got just enough energy to settle Shameless as long as you set out some of that cobbler from last night to go with that coffee.
Stefan had not closed the cobbler shop yet so that she could retrieve her new shoes.