Crossword clues for cobbling
cobbling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
To make or mend coarsely; to patch; to botch; as, to cobble shoes.
--Shak. ``A cobbled saddle.''
--Thackeray.To make clumsily. ``Cobbled rhymes.''
--Dryden.To pave with cobblestones.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of cobble English)
WordNet
n. the shoemaker's trade [syn: shoemaking, shoe repairing]
Usage examples of "cobbling".
Last night and to-day sea very high and cobbling, breaking over and making us all wet and cold.
Mace kept his head down, pretending to be engrossed in cobbling together an improvised adapter to recharge his lightsaber from looted blasterpacks.
Even though they weren't quite individuals, they still suffered and died, and the ones who didn't die he and his colleagues had to put back together any way they could, desperately jury-rigging and cobbling procedures, swapping out organs and patching up wounds, and then send them back out to suffer again.