OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 16920

cobbler

/ˈkɒblə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
remendona • remendón • zapatera • zapatera remendona • zapatero • zapatero remendón
A person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes.
But what of that vast number of the human kind who were always in the background? What of the hewers of wood and drawers of water, the swineherds, the shepherds, the carpenters, th…
This honest Cobler has done what he might: / That Statesmen in their Shoes might walk upright. / But rotten Shoes of Spannish running-leather: / No Coblers skill, can stitch them s…
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