COBBLED

Verb

cobbled

simple past tense and past participle of cobble

Adjective

cobbled

(of a road surface) Laid with cobbles.

Crudely or roughly assembled; put together in an improvised way, (as in "cobbled together")

Source: Wiktionary


COBBLE

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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