Cobble

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A name for the red-throated diver, Colymbus septentrionalis.
  • To mend or patch (especially shoes or boots).
  • Hence To put together, make, or do clumsily, unhandily, or coarsely.
  • To work as a cobbler; work clumsily.
  • noun. A stone rounded by the action of water, and of a size suitable for use in paving. Smaller stones of the same character are usually called pebbles, and larger ones boulders. Also called cobblestone, cobstone.
  • noun. A rounded hill.
  • noun. A round nut like a cobble. See cobnut.
  • noun. A kernel or stone (of fruit, etc.).
  • noun. A lump of coal from the size of an egg to that of a foot-ball.
  • noun. An icicle.
  • noun. In general, any piece of iron or steel which is wasted during rolling or forging: specifically, an imperfectly puddled ball of iron which goes to pieces in the squeezer.
  • noun. See coble.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To make or mend coarsely; to patch; to botch.
  • transitive verb. To make clumsily.
  • transitive verb. To pave with cobblestones.
  • noun. A fishing boat. See coble.
  • noun. A cobblestone.
  • noun. Cob coal. See under Cob.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A cobblestone.
  • noun. A particle from 64 to 256 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
  • verb. To make shoes (what a cobbler does).
  • verb. To assemble in an improvised way.
  • verb. To use cobblestones to pave a road, walkway, etc.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. repair or mend
  • noun. rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads
  • verb. pave with cobblestones
  • Word Usage
    "Then, too, the roads were of the kind called _pavé_; that is, paved with what we know as cobble-stones or Belgian blocks."
    Form
    cobbled  cobbling  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    bushel  doctor  fix  furbish up  mend  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Nobile  gobble  hobble  squabble  wobble  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    botch  cobblestone  patch  pave  repair  
    variant
    cob  coble  
    verb-form