COBBLE

cobble, cobblestone, sett

(noun) rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads

cobble

(verb) repair or mend; “cobble shoes”

cobble, cobblestone

(verb) pave with cobblestones

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Proper noun

Cobble (plural Cobbles)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Cobble is the 17097th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1660 individuals. Cobble is most common among White (83.98%) individuals.

Etymology

Noun

cobble (plural cobbles)

A cobblestone.

(geology) A particle from 64 to 256 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.

Alternative form of coble (a kind of fishing-boat).

Verb

cobble (third-person singular simple present cobbles, present participle cobbling, simple past and past participle cobbled)

(intransitive) To make shoes (what a cobbler does).

(transitive) To assemble in an improvised way.

(transitive, intransitive) To use cobblestones to pave a road, walkway, etc.

Source: Wiktionary


Cob"ble, n.

Definition: A fishing boat. See Coble.

Cob"ble, n. Etym: [From Cob a lump. See Cob, n., 9, and cf. Copple, Copplestone.]

1. A cobblestone. "Their slings held cobbles round." Fairfax.

2. pl.

Definition: Cob coal. See under Cob.

Cob"ble, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cobbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Cobbling.] Etym: [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.

2. To make clumsily. "Cobbled rhymes." Dryden.

3. To pave with cobblestones.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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