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Cobble   /kˈɑbəl/   Listen
noun
Cobble  n.  A fishing boat. See Coble.


Cobble  n.  
1.
A cobblestone. "Their slings held cobbles round."
2.
pl. Cob coal. See under Cob.


verb
Cobble  v. t.  (past & past part. cobbled; pres. part. cobbling)  
1.
To make or mend coarsely; to patch; to botch; as, to cobble shoes. "A cobbled saddle."
2.
To make clumsily. "Cobbled rhymes."
3.
To pave with cobblestones.





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"Cobble" Quotes from Famous Books



... large, cobble-paved court around which the hotel is built, and out upon the upstairs veranda overlooking this we are led and assigned to rooms. The rooms are clean, but unadorned and bare, and so seems the hotel ...
— A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees • Edwin Asa Dix
... of the highest buildings that looked on to the space. Before him rose the pile of churches, and here too, on every platform roof and stair, swarmed the spectators. The doors of the three churches were flung wide, and far within, in the lighted interiors, lay the heads of countless crowds, as cobble-stones, seen in perspective. The whole Place was in shadow now, as the sun had just gone down, but the sky was still alight overhead, a vast tender-coloured vault, as sweet as a benediction. Here and there, in the illimitable ...
— Dawn of All • Robert Hugh Benson
... their sad leisure there. Feldmarschall Fermor is now got to his people again, or his people to him; reunited in place and luck: such a chaos as Fermor never saw before or after. No regiment or battalion now is; mere simmering monads, this fine Army; officers doing their utmost to cobble it into something of rank, without regard to regiments or qualities. Darkness seldom sank on ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XVIII. (of XXI.) - Frederick The Great--Seven-Years War Rises to a Height.--1757-1759. • Thomas Carlyle
... acts. This bridge has two living piers—Pospischilli acting as one and Martenstine the other. Besides supporting this monstrous structure (weight, 1866 pounds) upon their shoulders, these freaks of superhuman strength allow a team of horses and a wagon loaded with a ton of cobble-stones to be driven ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould
... tumultuous wind at their backs it was not long before the buggy rattled once more over the cobble-stones of the town. Under the direction of his friend, Demorest, who still retained possession of the reins, drove briskly down a side street of more pretentious dwellings, where Blandford lived. One or ...
— The Argonauts of North Liberty • Bret Harte


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