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Cobble
Definitions
- 1 A surname.
- 1 A cobblestone.
"The narrow streets that twist and turn through the compact heart of Dent are surfaced with cobbles which, in the absence of pavements, spread right across from doorstep to doorstep."
- 2 Alternative form of coble (“a kind of fishing-boat”). alt-of, alternative
- 3 rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads wordnet
- 4 A particle from 64 to 256 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
- 5 A piece of steel that becomes malformed during its manufacture or rolling.
"These men are located near the rolls in a pulpit, which is usually completely inclosed with heavy close-meshed netting or boiler plate, so that if a cobble occurs they will be protected from the rods which fly in all directions on such occasions."
- 1 To make shoes (what a cobbler does). intransitive
- 2 repair or mend wordnet
- 3 To assemble in an improvised way. transitive
"I cobbled something together to get us through till morning."
- 4 pave with cobblestones wordnet
- 5 To use cobblestones to pave a road, walkway, etc. intransitive, transitive
Etymology
From Middle English cobill, kobill (used in various combinations with ston, stan (“stone”), note, nutt (“nut”), etc.), probably a diminutive of Middle English *cob, *cobb, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kubb- (“lump; round object”). Equivalent to cob + -le.
From Middle English cobill, kobill (used in various combinations with ston, stan (“stone”), note, nutt (“nut”), etc.), probably a diminutive of Middle English *cob, *cobb, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kubb- (“lump; round object”). Equivalent to cob + -le.
See coble.
* As an English surname, variant of Coble. * As a German surname, Americanized from Kobel.
See also for "cobble"
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