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Word entry · 7 letters

cobbler

Best crossword clue

"Fruit dessert with crust"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈkɒblə/Part of speech nounSorted bbcelorStarts with CEnds with R1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a pie made of fruit with rich biscuit dough usually only on top of the fruit

Word origin

Inherited from Middle English cobeler, cobelere (“mender of shoes, cobbler”) [and other forms]; further origin unknown. The word appears to be derived from an early form of cobble (“to mend roughly, patch; (specifically) to mend shoes, especially roughly”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns), but is attested much earlier than the verb which suggests that the verb may be a back-formation from cobbler.

Used in a sentence

  • 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 strong together.
  • [W]hat would they think of a French cobler cutting ſhoes for ſeveral of his fellow-ſubjects out of an old apple-tree?
  • All honeſt jogg trotmen, who go on ſmoothly and dully, and write hiſtory and politics, and are praiſed; and who, had they been bred coblers, would all their lives have only mended ſhoes, but never made them.

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