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A cobblestone. "Their slings held cobbles round." Fairfax.

A beverage. See Sherry cobbler, under Sherry. Cobbler fish (Zoöl.), a marine fish (Blepharis crinitus) of the Atlantic. The name alludes to its threadlike fin rays.

A large pebble; a rounded stone not too large to be handled; a small boulder; -- used for paving streets and for other purposes.

Wearing an apron. A cobbler aproned, and a parson gowned. Pope.

One who mends or patches, esp. a tailor or cobbler. Shak.

coal, coal in rounded lumps from the size of an egg to that of a football; -- called also cobbles. Grose. -- Cob loaf, a crusty, uneven loaf, rounded at top. Wright. -- Cob money, a kind of rudely coined gold and silver money of Spanish South America in the eighteenth century. The coins were of the weight of the piec…

Cobblestone. [Prov. Eng.]

A cobblestone. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A cobblestone. [Obs.]

ed condition, as if half asleep; to be drowsy. If he happened to doze a little, the jolly cobbler waked him. L'Estrange.

A wooden block shaped like the human foot, on which boots and shoes are formed. The cobbler is not to go beyond his last. L'Estrange. Darning last, a smooth, hard body, often egg-shaped, put into a stocking to preserve its shape in darning.

ly at will; to domineer over. The nobility could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, cobblers, and brewers. Swift.

is colored a straw color or a deep amber by mixing with it cheap wine boiled down. Sherry cobbler, a beverage prepared with sherry wine, water, lemon or orange, sugar, ice, etc., and usually imbided through a straw or a glass tube.

A shoemaker; a cobbler. [Obs.] Chaucer. There is no work better than another to please God: . . . to wash dishes, to be a souter, or an apostle, -- all is one. Tyndale.

Of or pertaining to a cobbler or cobblers; like a cobbler; hence, vulgar; low. [Obs.]

er, cloth, or the like; specifically, a strip of thick leather used in flogging. A lively cobbler that . . . had scarce passed a day without giving her [his wife] the discipline of the strap. Addison.

stone, or the like, laid in a public roadway otherwise formed of an inferior pavement, as cobblestones, to provide an easy way for wheels.

One who vamps; one who pieces an old thing with something new; a cobbler.