Cobbling

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.]
     1. To make or mend coarsely; to patch; to botch; as, to
        cobble shoes. --Shak. "A cobbled saddle." --Thackeray.


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     2. To make clumsily. "Cobbled rhymes." --Dryden.
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     3. To pave with cobblestones.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cobbling
       n : the shoemaker's trade [syn: {shoemaking}, {shoe repairing}]