COBBLER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cobbler mean? 

• COBBLER (noun)
  The noun COBBLER has 3 senses:

1. a person who makes or repairs shoes

2. tall sweetened iced drink of wine or liquor with fruit

3. a pie made of fruit with rich biscuit dough usually only on top of the fruit

  Familiarity information: COBBLER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COBBLER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who makes or repairs shoes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

cobbler; shoemaker

Hypernyms ("cobbler" is a kind of...):

maker; shaper (a person who makes things)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cobbler"):

boot maker; bootmaker (a maker of boots)

Derivation:

cobble (pave with cobblestones)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Tall sweetened iced drink of wine or liquor with fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("cobbler" is a kind of...):

highball (a mixed drink made of alcoholic liquor mixed with water or a carbonated beverage and served in a tall glass)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A pie made of fruit with rich biscuit dough usually only on top of the fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

cobbler; deep-dish pie

Hypernyms ("cobbler" is a kind of...):

pie (dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top)

 Context examples 

At Castelnau also there is a cobbler who is in my pay, and who will throw us a rope any dark night from his house by the town wall.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He lives on the Hill, back of the Mayfair bakery, runnin’ a cobbler’s shop that everybody knows, and you’ll have no trouble.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The thought pleased the good cobbler very much; and one evening, when all the things were ready, they laid them on the table, instead of the work that they used to cut out, and then went and hid themselves, to watch what the little elves would do.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

‘I perceive that all is as it should be. But we have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler’s wax which would disgust you with human nature.’

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here! The cobbler's been, he said, since you've been out, Mr. Mell, and he says he can't mend 'em any more. He says there ain't a bit of the original boot left, and he wonders you expect it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)