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How to use cobbler in a sentence

12 example sentences · noun

Cobbler means a person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes. Example: “Look out: it’s the cobblers!”

Examples of cobbler by meaning

nounA person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes.

  • What of the hewers of wood and drawers of water, the swineherds, the shepherds, the carpenters, the hedgers and cobblers?1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page 13

nounThe shiny, hard seed of the horse chestnut tree (Aesculus hippocastanum), especially when used in the game of the same...

  • But I got my cobbler—" He pulled from his pocket a black old horse-chestnut hanging on a string.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “The Casting Off of Morel—The Taking On of William”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […]...

nounA police officer.

  • Look out: it’s the cobblers!

nounOften preceded by a descriptive word as in apple cobbler, peach cobbler, etc.: a kind of pie, usually filled with...

  • They also have a recipe for a pretty darn good peach cobbler.2013 April 30, Norm Macdonald Live, season 1, episode 6, spoken by Larry King

More sentences with cobbler

  • Then she only goes and kicks me right in me cobblers, don’t she!From the entry cobblers
  • Stop talking cobblers. Load of old cobblers.From the entry cobblers
  • You must taste her prizewinning cobbler.From the entry prizewinning
  • You would laugh at a cobbler who should attempt to put the same shoe on every foot.2007, Robert Mayhew, Essays on Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead, →ISBN, page 122. From the entry put the same shoe on every foot
  • The first is making shoes at night while, you know, the old cobbler sleeps.2003, opening scene of film, in Elf, spoken by Papa Elf (Bob Newhart). From the entry elfism
  • "Secondhanded goods has chips," said the cobbler stoutly.1987, Walter Dumaux Edmonds, Rome Haul, →ISBN, page 170. From the entry secondhanded
  • He had a boot in his left hand, and, in his right, what cobblers call a wax end.1939, Frank Richards, The Magnet: Loder Looks for Trouble. From the entry waxed end
  • Oh, don’t say anything,” cried the atheist cobbler, dancing about in an ecstasy of admiration of the English legal system.1911, G. K. Chesterton, “The Hammer of God”, in The Innocence of Father Brown. From the entry legalist

Meaning of cobbler

  1. noun A person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes.
  2. noun A sheep left to the end to be sheared (for example, because its wool is filthy, or because it is difficult to catch).
  3. noun A person who cobbles (“to assemble or mend in an improvised or rough way”); a clumsy workman.

Full definition of cobbler

Questions about cobbler in a sentence

How do you use cobbler in a sentence?
Cobbler is used as a noun. For example: “Look out: it’s the cobblers!”
What is a short sentence with cobbler?
“Look out: it’s the cobblers!”
What does cobbler mean?
Cobbler means a person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes.

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