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COBBLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cobble mean?
• COBBLE (noun)
The noun COBBLE has 1 sense:
1. rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads
Familiarity information: COBBLE used as a noun is very rare.
• COBBLE (verb)
The verb COBBLE has 2 senses:
Familiarity information: COBBLE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
cobble; cobblestone; sett
Hypernyms ("cobble" is a kind of...):
paving stone (a stone used for paving)
Derivation:
cobble (pave with cobblestones)
Conjugation: |
Past simple: cobbled
Past participle: cobbled
-ing form: cobbling
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pave with cobblestones
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
cobble; cobblestone
Hypernyms (to "cobble" is one way to...):
pave (cover with a material such as stone or concrete to make suitable for vehicle traffic)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
cobble (rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads)
cobbler (a person who makes or repairs shoes)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Repair or mend
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
cobble shoes
Hypernyms (to "cobble" is one way to...):
bushel; doctor; fix; furbish up; mend; repair; restore; touch on (restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
cobbling (the shoemaker's trade)
Context examples
More than one captain made up his mind then and there that his "cobble" or his "mule," as they term the different classes of boats, would remain in the harbour till the storm had passed.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
We passed Port Roosevelt, where there was a glimpse of red-belted ocean-going ships, and sped along a cobbled slum lined with the dark, undeserted saloons of the faded gilt nineteen-hundreds.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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