Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The trade of making shoes and boots.

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

  • noun The business of a shoemaker.

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

  • noun The making of shoes.

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

  • noun the shoemaker's trade

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Examples

  • Janet he must have been familiar with the processes collectively called shoemaking; and therewith she recognized the word on the slate -- a sutor.

    Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864

  • Women worked alongside men, supporting their families primarily through petty commerce, selling all kinds of produce in the marketplace, and also through artisan trades such as shoemaking and tailoring.

    Eastern European Immigrants in the United States. 2009

  • It would include therefore the multifarious trades (such as shoemaking) and activities productive of all kinds of goods and services, whereby people are able to obtain a reasonable living; it would include all activities ordered to exchange except those “business” activities directly aimed at increasing one's stock of money by buying and then re-selling the same things (MCM).

    Chesterton and Capitalism Part Two 2008

  • Afterward they lead them to the offices of the trades, such as shoemaking, cooking, metal-working, carpentry, painting, etc.

    The City of the Sun 2002

  • Afterward they lead them to the offices of the trades, such as shoemaking, cooking, metal-working, carpentry, painting, etc.

    City of the Sun 1901

  • It is the small industries, such as shoemaking and carpentry, which crush the same free industries all round the prison, for they cannot stand against the artificial competition created by the nominal wages of the prison hands.

    Criminal Sociology 1899

  • Man likes light work or none at all -- there he labors all day in the field, or in the blacksmith shop or the other shops devoted to the mechanical trades, such as shoemaking, saddlery, carpentry, and so on.

    Following the Equator, Part 7 Mark Twain 1872

  • Man likes light work or none at all -- there he labors all day in the field, or in the blacksmith shop or the other shops devoted to the mechanical trades, such as shoemaking, saddlery, carpentry, and so on.

    Following the Equator Mark Twain 1872

  • Afterwards they lead them to the offices of the trades, such as shoemaking, cooking, metal-working, carpentry, painting, &c.

    Ideal Commonwealths Tommaso Campanella 1603

  • Afterward they lead them to the offices of the trades, such as shoemaking, cooking, metal-working, carpentry, painting, etc.

    The City of the Sun Tommaso Campanella 1603

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