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▪ I. cobble, n.1|ˈkɒb(ə)l|
Also 6 cobbel, 6–7 coble.
[Of obscure etymology: app. related to cob n.1 in some of its senses. The earliest connexion in which it appears is cobbled-stone (if this is not an error): see cobbled.]
1. a. A water-worn rounded stone, esp. of the size suitable for paving. In earlier times often identified in use with pebble.
1475,1530[see cobble-stone]. 1600Fairfax Tasso xx. xxix, Their slings held cobles round. 1691Ray N.C. Words 16 A Cobble, a Pebble. 1727Beverley Beek Act 2 Cobbles or pebbles for paving. 1880L. Wallace Ben-Hur 62 The road is..difficult on account of the cobbles left loose and dry by the washing of the rains.
attrib.1883Leisure Hour 360 The narrow cobble foot⁓ways. 1889Q. Rev. Apr. 364 Thick stone or cobble walling.
b. transf.
1880Besant & Rice Seamy Side xx. 173 A cobble of blue⁓stone for washing. 1881Raymond Mining Gloss., Cobble (Penn.), an imperfectly puddled ball which goes to pieces in the squeezer.
2. pl. Coal of the size of small cobble stones.
1815J. Farey View Derbyshire I. 187 Cobbles..are what we in London should call good round coals, being the larger lumps picked out of what they call the sleck or waste small coals. 1883Daily News 20 Sept. 7/5 Advt., Kitchen Cobbles, 18s.
attrib.1869Ouida Puck iii. (1877) 26 The ruddy light of the cobble fire.
†3. (See quot.: perh. not the same word.) Obs.
1570Levins Manip. 55 A Cobbel, dullard, hæbes, bardus.
4. attrib. and Comb., as cobble-paved, cobble-streeted adjs.; cobble-hedge, a fence of boulders.
1887Hall Caine Son of Hagar I. i. v. 110 To see over the stone *cobble-hedge into the field.
1891Pall Mall Gaz. 30 Nov. 3/1 The *cobble-paved road, bordered by endless crucifixes. 1910W. J. Locke Simon the Jester xii, We crossed the cobble-paved courtyard.
1909M. B. Saunders Litany Lane iii. xxv, Little *cobble-streeted shady French towns.
▪ II. cobble, n.2
[f. cobble v.1]
A clumsy mending.
1859M. Napier Life Claverhouse I. i. 43 note, This is not a very successful or ingenuous cobble.
▪ III. cobble, n.3
A local name of the Great Northern Diver, and Red-throated Diver, sea-fowl.
1802in G. Montagu Ornith. Dict. 1862in Johns Brit. Birds. 1885in Swainson Prov. Names Birds.
▪ IV. cobble
var. of coble1.
▪ V. cobble, v.1|ˈkɒb(ə)l|
Also 6–8 coble.
[This and the n. cobbler evidently go together etymologically; but the latter, though in its form a deriv. of the vb., has as yet been found much earlier. Of the derivation nothing certain is known: the suggestion that the source is an OF. *coubler var. of coupler to couple, join together, is not tenable.]
1. trans. To mend or repair roughly or clumsily; to patch up.
1496in Ld. Treas. Acc. Scotl. I. 274 To the man that coblit the lede in Drummyne ijs. c1525Skelton Replyc. 222 Ye cobble & ye cloute Holy Scripture so aboute. 1662Petty Taxes 27 Men..cobble up old houses. 1715tr. Pancirollus' Rerum Mem. I. ii. xx. 118 Some Tinker cobling a piece of Brass. 1879E. Garrett House by Works II. 10 To pawn her china, and to cobble up her family garments.
b. spec. To mend (shoes), esp. roughly or clumsily; to patch. Also absol.
1552Huloet, Cobble shoes, calceamenta resarcire. 1598Famous Vict. Hen. V, x. 12 Oh sir, I haue a great many shooes at home to Cobble. 1601Shakes. Jul. C. i. i. 22. 1664 Butler Hud. ii. ii. 432 A man that serv'd them in a double Capacity, to Teach and Cobble. 1789Mrs. Piozzi Journ. France II. 74 They do condescend to cobble thy shoes, and confine thyself to the vocation for which a man's shoe. 1860Smiles Self-Help x. 263 Drew studied..philosophy in the intervals of cobbling shoes.
2. To put together or join roughly or clumsily.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. ix. (Arb.) 169 To expresse that which the Greeks could do by cobling many words together. a1764Lloyd Cobler Tessington, My predecessors often use To coble verse as well as shoes. 1828Carlyle Misc. (1857) I. 192 A pasteboard Tree, cobbled together out of size and waste-paper and water-colours. 1855A. Manning Chelsea Bun-house xviii. 299 To cobble an additional breadth of dimity to the curtain.
b. intr. or absol.
1809Byron Bards & Rev. 769 St. Crispin quits, and cobbles for the muse. 1818― Juan Ded. xiv, Cobbling at manacles for all mankind.
3. Comb., as cobble-text (nonce-wd.), a preacher who deals clumsily and unskilfully with a text.
1830Galt Lawrie T. iii. xiv. (1849) 132 Strolling Methodists, and those sort of cobble-texts.
▪ VI. ˈcobble, v.2
[f. cobble n.1]
trans. a. To pave with cobbles. b. dial. To pelt with stones.
1691Ray N.C. Words 16 To cobble with Stones, to throw Stones at any thing. 1855Whitby Gloss., Cobble, to stone, to pelt with dirt. ‘A good cobbling,’ a severe pelting. 1888W. D. Lighthall Yng. Seigneur 14 A court-yard cobbled in antique fashion.
▪ VII. cobble
obs. f. gobble v. |