COBBLESTONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cobblestone mean? 

• COBBLESTONE (noun)
  The noun COBBLESTONE has 1 sense:

1. rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads

  Familiarity information: COBBLESTONE used as a noun is very rare.

• COBBLESTONE (verb)
  The verb COBBLESTONE has 1 sense:

1. pave with cobblestones

  Familiarity information: COBBLESTONE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COBBLESTONE (noun)

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 ("cobblestone" is a kind of...):

paving stone (a stone used for paving)

• COBBLESTONE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pave with cobblestones

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

cobble; cobblestone

Hypernyms (to "cobblestone" 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

 Context examples 

A fine rain was falling, and the yellow lights from the windows glistened upon the wet cobblestones of the yard.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An occasional oil lamp at the corner of a street, or in the portico of some wealthy burgher, threw a faint glimmer over the shining cobblestones, and the varied motley crowd who, in spite of the weather, ebbed and flowed along every highway.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Six days after injections, the researchers found that the growing neurons exclusively filled their chambers while the growing blood vessel cells not only lined their chamber in a cobblestone pattern reminiscent of vessels in the body, but also snuck through the perforations in the chamber walls and contacted the neurons.

(Researchers begin recreating human spinal cords on a chip, National Institutes of Health)

We heard the dwindling roar of the wheels upon the cobblestones until they died away in the distance.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Young as I was, I knew that it was here, in the forest of merchant shipping, in the bales which swung up to the warehouse windows, in the loaded waggons which roared over the cobblestones, that the power of Britain lay.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)