to cobble

Examples

• All

• By cobbling shoes for 20 years.

  Tennessee Johnson (1942)

• Blood, sweat and tears built the highways, won your wars, put bread on your table, stitched your shirts and cobbled your shoes.

  O.C. and Stiggs (1987)

• A delivery truck pulled up in the cobbled alley we were facing with a snort of diesel exhaust.

  Blog text (14)

• Kitmann's broken and cobbled body wouldn't take the grueling pace.

  Fiction book (1999)

• They have goodwill, they have hidden capacities, but they have to know: to make a shoe, one has to study cobbling.

  Academic text (2009)

• "My little ship, my brave little ship, gone to splinters, not enough of her left to cobble a raft." "Farewell, Callista," groaned Fronto.

  Fiction book (1995)

• In Russia, my grandfather had been a young apprentice harnessmaker, and in Newark, aged quickly by the stunning dearth of horses needing handwrought gear, he had switched to cobbling shoes.

  Fiction book (1990)

• After the storm, he was able to cobble a temporary fix for the broken fence.

• She learned how to cobble her shoes after they tore during the hike.

Synonyms

C

to cobble together

vsto cobble

• Informal

16 5.2

Make something quickly and roughly from things you have

focuses on repairing or mending items, often shoes, not on assembling new goods

C

to cobble up

vsto cobble

• Informal

8.2

To make something quickly and roughly using what is available

focuses on repairing or mending items, often shoes, rather than creating from parts

Phrasal Verbs

C

to cobble together

• Informal

16 5.2

Make something quickly and roughly from things you have

C

to cobble up

• Informal

8.2

To make something quickly and roughly using what is available

How Well

to restore

219 3.5

to mend

41 1.2

to patch

151 2.5

to cobble

3 7.2

to botch

63 6.0

Surface Forms

Etymology