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Definition of Cobbling
1. Noun. The shoemaker's trade.
Definition of Cobbling
1. Verb. (present participle of cobble) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cobbling
1. cobble [v] - See also: cobble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cobbling
Literary usage of Cobbling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Making, Shaping and Treating of Steel by James McIntyre Camp, Charles Blaine Francis (1920)
"cobbling: The most frequent failure in rolling is cobbling. It occurs at the
blooming mill as a turn down or twisting of the piece in the rolls, ..."
2. Miscellanies by William Makepeace Thackeray (1877)
"Now he is living on his wife's jointure : she is hidden away in some dismal
garret, patching shabby finery and cobbling up old clothes for her children ..."
3. Letters of Thomas Carlyle, 1826-1836 by Thomas Carlyle (1888)
"Bowring wrote by return of post a very frank warm-looking Note, wishing to have
the "Nibe- lungen Article " directly : I have been cobbling at it for five ..."
4. The English Illustrated Magazine (1889)
"... Yet when he comes home, although he be weary, With his sweet wife he maketh
himself full merry. The cobbler he sits cobbling till noon, ..."
5. A History of Parliamentary Elections and Electioneering: From the Stuarts to by Joseph Grego (1892)
"... and illustrated as " The Wit's Last Stake; or, the cobbling Voter and Abject
Canvassers. ... cobbling ..."
6. The Far Interior: A Narrative of Travel and Adventure from the Cape of Good by Walter Montagu Kerr (1886)
"... with an ox—Friendly people—Assegai practice—A successful shot— cobbling
shoes—Appearance of the people—Adornments of the women and men—Absence of gold ..."
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