Definition of Cobblery

1. the mending of shoes [n COBBLERIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cobblery

cobbers
cobbier
cobbiest
cobbing
cobble
cobble together
cobble up
cobbled
cobbler
cobbler's
cobbler's last
cobbler's suture
cobblerfish
cobblerfishes
cobblery (current term)
cobbles
cobblestone
cobblestoned
cobblestones
cobblestoning
cobbling
cobbly
cobbs
cobby
cobelligerent
cobelligerents
cobia
cobias
cobinamide kinase

Literary usage of Cobblery

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Life of Edward FitzGerald by Thomas Wright (1904)
"Of a week evening he would, often as not, light a lantern, and cross the fields to spend an hour or two with Crabbe in the ' cobblery ..."

2. Colored School Children in New York by Frances Blascoer, Eleanor Hope Johnson (1915)
"It paralleled the work of the public schools through grades lA to 46, and in addition conducted classes after school in cobblery, carpentry, sewing, ..."

3. Some Literary Associations of East Anglia by William Alfred Dutt (1907)
"... or two with Crabbe in that dingy little study he called the " cobblery," and which reeked of tobacco and smelt like an inn-parlour. ..."

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