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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cobbled
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cobbled streets (=with a surface made from round stones)
▪ The cobbled streets were closed to cars.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
courtyard
▪ London's most famous riverside pub with a flagstone floor, a cobbled courtyard and great views.
▪ There was no phone number listed for the old seminary that opened on to a cobbled courtyard above the Praia Grande.
▪ They walked through the barbican of the Rorim into the cobbled courtyard beyond.
▪ Two great doors stood open in an arched entrance and they came out into a cobbled courtyard.
▪ Its cobbled courtyard and centrepiece - the thirteenth-century Knights' Hall - are open to the public.
▪ Lunch could be had in the inn's cobbled courtyard.
▪ The car rocked to a standstill in the walled and cobbled courtyard, outside the modern red-brick Stanford Park Hotel.
square
▪ Carol looked up at the weathercock as the car drew up at her house in the cobbled square.
▪ They walked together across a cobbled square.
▪ Le Palais, where the ferry docks, is an agreeable, unspoilt little town of ancient houses and cobbled squares.
▪ It was followed by a lunch party at a local restaurant where the tables had been placed outside in the cobbled square.
▪ Nearby Newark is a picturesque market town with a cobbled square overlooked by buildings of architectural interest.
street
▪ The authorities have been grappling with the problem for a decade, but still the cars choke the cobbled streets.
▪ They remembered cobbled streets and graceful balconies, the river Seine, and the lovers.
▪ The cobbled streets and the boulevards spoke to him, told him tales he thought he had forgotten.
▪ He wandered an area of refrigerated warehouses with old dual-gauge tracks intersecting on the cobbled streets.
▪ It was lying on the edge of the pavement, with one end trailing on to the cobbled street.
▪ The cobbled streets were closed to cars.
▪ Stein-am-Rhein Cars are banned from its cobbled streets, which are flanked by a positively intoxicating profusion of old buildings.
yard
▪ At the side of the house, across a cobbled yard, lay an L-shaped stable block.
▪ The cobbled yard outside the stables which were built in 1540.
▪ Mr Rollins loved it immediately, cobbled yard, rusty milling machinery and all.
▪ We pushed past the steward, re-crossed the cobbled yard and entered the main palace building.
▪ The window looked out on to the cobbled yard.
▪ Claudia had just time to see a sign in gold and red before they turned into a cobbled yard.
▪ The Co-operative also had double doors with a wicket gate leading into a cobbled yard.
▪ He led me up the cobbled yard and opened the door of one of the houses.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He wandered an area of refrigerated warehouses with old dual-gauge tracks intersecting on the cobbled streets.
▪ Le Palais, where the ferry docks, is an agreeable, unspoilt little town of ancient houses and cobbled squares.
▪ Nearby Newark is a picturesque market town with a cobbled square overlooked by buildings of architectural interest.
▪ The cobbled streets and the boulevards spoke to him, told him tales he thought he had forgotten.
▪ The authorities have been grappling with the problem for a decade, but still the cars choke the cobbled streets.
▪ There was no phone number listed for the old seminary that opened on to a cobbled courtyard above the Praia Grande.
▪ They walked through the barbican of the Rorim into the cobbled courtyard beyond.
▪ Where the street broadened into a square, the houses were swathed in plumbago and bougainvillaea growing valiantly out of the cobbled pavement.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cobbled

Cobble \Cob"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cobbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Cobbling.] [OF. cobler, copler, to join or knit together, couple, F. coupler, L. copulare to couple, join. Cf. Couple, n. & v. t.]

  1. To make or mend coarsely; to patch; to botch; as, to cobble shoes.
    --Shak. ``A cobbled saddle.''
    --Thackeray.

  2. To make clumsily. ``Cobbled rhymes.''
    --Dryden.

  3. To pave with cobblestones.

Wiktionary
cobbled

  1. 1 (context of a road surface English) Laid with cobbles. 2 crude or roughly assembled; put together in an improvised way, ''(as in "cobbled together")'' v

  2. (en-past of: cobble)

Usage examples of "cobbled".

Through an arched opening, she could see a cobbled area that flickered with torchlight, contrasting sharply with the bright, actinic glare of floodlamps.

One of the streets leading into it is called Kanzlerstrasse, a narrow, cobbled affair with a bierhaus on the corner, under a clock.

A stone broch rose three floors above a cobbled ward and proper wooden round houses for the important servants.

In the middle of a cobbled and well-drained ward rose a three-story broch, surrounded by enough outbuildings and stables to house a party of a hundred guests.

These men had cobbled together a mishmash of Plato, the Gospels, the Jewish Cabala, together with a few scraps of Egyptian philosophy, and had managed to hoodwink scholars, priests and kings for more than a thousand years.

Vaylo waited until horse and rider reached the torchlight and cobbled stone of the Dhoone greatcourt before turning to face Cluff Drybannock.

Constitution was not given much attention as the drafting committee cobbled together its new charter.

Some of the more wired dissidents of Novy Petrograd had cobbled together something which they, in turn, called a management information system: cameras squatted with hooded cyclopean eyes atop the garrets and rooflines of the city, feeding images into the digital nervous system of the revolution.

She hurried along the path that led to the old orangery, and with each tap of her heels on the cobbled stones her anger grew.

In the streets of New York, hundreds of antidraft rioters were mown down with grapeshot, and the cobbled street before the little magic shop was strewn with reeking dead.

Long Tieng became a desultory megalopolis, an unpaved, sewerless city of more than 30,000 where Hmong ran noodle stands, cobbled shoes, tailored clothes, repaired radios, ran military-jeep taxi services, and interpreted for American pilots and relief workers.

Barney and Old Jimmie talked to each other as the taxicab bumped through the cobbled streets, their talk being for the most part maledictions against Larry Brainard.

Eugene crossed the cobbled courtyard in his bare feet, Petter hurrying at his heels.

Kraft is performing sloppy seconds on an emergency repair cobbled together by Plummer on an eleven-year-old male who was riding semifigurative shotgun in a car that a couple club brothers had taken out on community loan.

Her boredom subsided in the early afternoon when they rolled into the town of Gram mantes, with its intact medieval city wall, its cobbled streets, quaintly gabled and timbered houses, and its ancient guild halls of rose-flecked Fabequais granite.