Cobble

Quick meaning: Cobble is a noun meaning A cobblestone.

Meaning

A cobblestone.

More Meanings

1. (geology) A particle from 64 to 256 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
2. (manufacturing) A piece of steel that becomes malformed during its manufacture or rolling.
3. (intransitive) To make shoes (what a cobbler does).
4. (transitive) To assemble in an improvised way.
5. (transitive, intransitive) To use cobblestones to pave a road, walkway, etc.
6. Alternative form of coble (“a kind of fishing-boat”).

Example Sentences

I cobbled something together to get us through till morning.

Cameras pointed between stands could be saved for 5 or 7 days, enough to troubleshoot cobble or off-level mills.

The ideal control which they offer the reversing motor is such, when a cobble might be made in the steel mill, the metal can be handled gently, and very often the ingot saved.

The narrow streets that twist and turn through the compact heart of Dent are surfaced with cobbles which, in the absence of pavements, spread right across from doorstep to doorstep.

Word Forms

• cobbles
• cobbling
• cobbled

Synonyms for cobble

Depending on context, synonyms include sett, cobblestone.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cobblestone, sett, pebble, gravel, stone, rock.

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