cobble Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads
    sett; cobblestone.
  2. verb pave with cobblestones
    cobblestone.
  3. verb repair or mend
    • cobble shoes

WordNet

Cob"ble noun
Definitions
  1. A fishing boat. See Coble.
Cob"ble noun
Etymology
From Cob a lump. See Cob, n., 9, and cf. Copple, Copplestone.
Definitions
  1. A cobblestone. "Their slings held cobbles round." Fairfax.
  2. pl. Cob coal. See under Cob.
Cob"ble transitive verb
Etymology
OF. cobler, copler, to join or knit together, couple, F. coupler, L. copulare to couple, join. Cf. Couple, n. & v. t.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Cobbled ; present participle & verbal noun Cobbling
Definitions
  1. To make or mend coarsely; to patch; to botch; as, to cobble shoes. Shak. "A cobbled saddle." Thackeray.
  2. To make clumsily. "Cobbled rhymes." Dryden.
  3. To pave with cobblestones.

Webster 1913