Cobbler

Quick meaning: Cobbler is a noun meaning A person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes.

Meaning

A person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes.

More Meanings

1. (US, alcoholic beverages) An (iced) alcoholic drink containing spirit or wine, with lemon juice and sugar.
2. A roadworker who lays cobbles.
3. Used as a name for various animals.
4. (Australia, New Zealand, agriculture, slang) A sheep left to the end to be sheared (for example, because its wool is filthy, or because it is difficult to catch).
5. The shiny, hard seed of the horse chestnut tree (Aesculus hippocastanum), especially when used in the game of the same name (sense 1.2); a conker, a horse chestnut.
6. Synonym of conkers (“a game for two players in which the participants each have a horse-chestnut (known as a cobbler (sense 1.1) or conker) suspended from a length of string, and take turns to strike their opponent's conker with their own with the object of destroying the opponent's conker before their own is destroyed”).
7. (obsolete) A person who cobbles (“to assemble or mend in an improvised or rough way”); a clumsy workman.

Example Sentences

Truely Sir, in reſpect of a fine Workman, / I am but as you would ſay, a Cobler.

It was very hot when Captain Littledale was here; he did nothing but drink sherry cobblers.

[W]hat would they think of a French cobler cutting ſhoes for ſeveral of his fellow-ſubjects out of an old apple-tree?

This honest Cobler has done what he might: / That Statesmen in their Shoes might walk upright. / But rotten Shoes of Spannish running-leather: / No Coblers skill, can stitch them strong together.

Word Forms

• cobblers
• cobler

Synonyms for cobbler

Depending on context, synonyms include botcher, chuckler, shoemender, souter, waxie, waxy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include shoemaker, sutor, soler, cinch, passenger, pie.

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