Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bent rasp used in straightening the shaft of a ramrod.
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Lady two: Yeah, I know the IT guy told me that the cobler blog was recommending we stay away from Dell.
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Lady two: Yeah, I know the IT guy told me that the cobler blog was recommending we stay away from Dell.
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Lady two: Yeah, I know the IT guy told me that the cobler blog was recommending we stay away from Dell.
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I cannot help observing here the art of the poet in letting us into the condition of Taylor: we may guess from his being pressed that he was not free of the city, and was most likely a journeyman cobler, coblers being famous for their glee.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810
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A cobler who has been used to rear canary-birds for Mad. de
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A cobler who has been used to rear canary-birds for Mad. de
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No respect is paid to any person; the cobler on that day thinks himself equal to the parson, who generally gets mounted like the rest of his flock; whilst one of his porters _boasts and prides himself_ in having, but just before, got the _Squire_ across the pole.
A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton
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Larrey or Laurie Miller was an old tailor in Keate's Lane who used to sit on his open shop-board, facing the street, a mark for the compliments of passing boys; as frolicsome youngsters in the days of Addison and Steele, as High School lads in the days of Walter Scott, were accustomed to "smoke the cobler."
Biographical Study of A W Kinglake Tuckwell, Rev W 1902
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There is scarce a plough jogger or country cobler that has read our Psalms and can make two lines jingle, who has not once in his life at least exercised his talent in this way.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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Lane who used to sit on his open shop-board, facing the street, a mark for the compliments of passing boys; as frolicsome youngsters in the days of Addison and Steele, as High School lads in the days of Walter Scott, were accustomed to "smoke the cobler."
Biographical Study of A.W. Kinglake William Tuckwell 1874
ruzuzu commented on the word cobler
"A bent rasp used in straightening the shaft of a ramrod."
- The Century Dictionary
July 31, 2010