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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One that makes or repairs shoes.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A common name of various species of carangoid fishes, especially of Alectis ciliaris, from its thread-like dorsal spines.
  • noun A maker of shoes; one who makes or has to do with making shoes and boots.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One whose occupation it is to make shoes and boots.
  • noun The threadfish.
  • noun The runner, 12.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person who makes shoes
  • noun The threadfish.
  • noun A fish, Elagatis pinnulatis, the runner.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a person who makes or repairs shoes

Etymologies

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shoe +‎ maker

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