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Cobbler   /kˈɑblər/   Listen
Cobbler

noun
1.
A person who makes or repairs shoes.  Synonym: shoemaker.
2.
Tall sweetened iced drink of wine or liquor with fruit.
3.
A pie made of fruit with rich biscuit dough usually only on top of the fruit.  Synonym: deep-dish pie.



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"Cobbler" Quotes from Famous Books



... the same house, Maestro Agostino da Pavia gave to me a Turkish hide to have (2 lire.) a pair of short boots made of it; this Giacomo stole it of me within a month and sold it to a cobbler for 20 soldi, with which money, by his own confession, he bought anise ...
— The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete • Leonardo Da Vinci
... with heavy soles and provided with a set of three thin insoles to be used according as the state of his toes made advisable. The cost of the Presbury gout-boot had been, thanks to patient search for a cheap cobbler, something under four dollars—this, when men paid shoe specialists twenty, thirty, and even forty dollars a pair for gout-boots that gave less comfort. The morning after the dinner at which he had drunk to drown his chagrin and to give him courage and tongue ...
— The Price She Paid • David Graham Phillips
... that the thoughts of youth were of vast length, and perhaps he believed it. But he did not think John's had reached quite as far as wishing to be a cobbler ...
— An Australian Lassie • Lilian Turner
... pleasures, or more jealous of the smallest advantages which his privileged station confers upon him. But the very same individual crosses the city to reach a dark counting-house in the centre of traffic, where every one may accost him who pleases. If he meets his cobbler upon the way, they stop and converse; the two citizens discuss the affairs of the State in which they have an equal interest, and they shake hands before ...
— Democracy In America, Volume 1 (of 2) • Alexis de Tocqueville
... said Johnnie, "thath what he mutht do. He mutht be thrown into an iron pot, with a gallon of therry cobbler, and a pumpkin pie, and thome baked beanth, and a copy of the Biglow Paperth, and a handful of thalt, and they mutht all thimmer together till he ...
— Fated to Be Free • Jean Ingelow


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