Crossword clues for cobbler
cobbler
- Saver of soles?
- A person who makes or repairs shoes
- Tall sweetened iced drink of wine or liquor with fruit
- Made of fruit with rich biscuit dough usually only on top of the fruit
- Fruit dish
- More than one such snob offers nonsense
- Shoe repairer
- Shoe mender
- Australian mate brings in trainee worker at last
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., cobelere "one who mends shoes," of uncertain origin. It and cobble (v.) "evidently go together etymologically" [OED], but the historical record presents some difficulties. "The cobbler should stick to his last" (ne sutor ultra crepidam) is from the anecdote of Greek painter Apelles.\n\nOn one occasion a cobbler noticed a fault in the painting of a shoe, and remarking upon it to a person standing by, passed on. As soon as the man was out of sight Apelles came from his hiding-place, examined the painting, found that the cobbler's criticism was just, and at once corrected the error. ... The cobbler came by again and soon discovered that the fault he had pointed out had been remedied; and, emboldened by the success of his criticism, began to express his opinion pretty freely about the painting of the leg! This was too much for the patience of the artist, who rushed from his hiding place and told the cobbler to stick to his shoes.
[William Edward Winks, "Lives of Illustrious Shoemakers," London, 1883]
\n[The quote is variously reported: Pliny ("Natural History" XXXV.x.36) has ne supra crepidam judicaret, while Valerius Maximus (VIII.xiii.3) gives supra plantam ascendere vetuit.]"deep-dish fruit pie," 1859, American English, perhaps related to 14c. cobeler "wooden bowl."
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 juice. 6 (context obsolete English) A clumsy workman.
WordNet
n. a person who makes or repairs shoes [syn: shoemaker]
tall sweetened iced drink of wine or liquor with fruit
made of fruit with rich biscuit dough usually only on top of the fruit [syn: deep-dish pie]
Wikipedia
Cobbler(s) may refer to:
Cobbler refers to a variety of dishes, particularly in the United Kingdom and United States, consisting of a fruit or savoury filling poured into a large baking dish and covered with a batter, biscuit, or dumpling (in England) before being baked. Some cobbler recipes, especially in the American South, resemble a thick-crusted, deep-dish pie with both a top and bottom crust.
Cobbler is a Linux provisioning server that facilitates and automates the network-based system installation of multiple computer operating systems from a central point using services such as DHCP, TFTP, and DNS. It can be configured for PXE, reinstallations, and virtualized guests using Xen, KVM or VMware. Cobbler interacts with the koan program for re-installation and virtualization support. koan and Cobbler use libvirt to integrate with different virtualization software. Cobbler is able to manage complex network scenarios like bridging on a bonded Ethernet link.
Cobbler builds on the Kickstart mechanism and offers installation profiles that can be applied to one or many machines. It also features integration with Yum to aid in machine installs.
Cobbler has features to dynamically change the information contained in a kickstart template (definition), either by passing variables called ksmeta or by using so-called snippets. An example for a ksmeta variable could be the name of a disk device in the system. This could be inherited from the system's Cobbler profile. Snippets can be dynamic Python code that expands the limited functionality of Anaconda. The combination of profiles, ksmeta and snippets gives Cobbler high flexibility; complexity is avoided by keeping the actual "code" in the snippets, of which there can be one for each task in an installation. There are examples for network setup or disk partitioning; keeping common code in snippets helps minimize the size of the kickstart files.
Cobbler originally targeted and packaged for RPM-based installs via Kickstart and Anaconda, and was previously hosted as part of the Fedora Project. From Jan 19, 2011 Cobbler has been packaged for Ubuntu. Since 2012 Canonical Ltd has used Cobbler for test automation of OpenStack on Ubuntu.
Red Hat's systems management application, Satellite, uses Cobbler for provisioning.
"Cobbler" is the second episode of the second season of the AMC television series Better Call Saul, the spinoff series of Breaking Bad. The episode aired on February 22, 2016.
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.