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# cobble

«cobble» in Mova's school dictionary: **to mend old shoes, especially by hand** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (cobble, cobbles, cobbled, cobbling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To cobble is to mend old shoes, especially by hand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cobble/#m1)

2) To cobble is to put something together roughly, from odd pieces. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cobble/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, the job of a poor man who repairs shoes; in talk, «cobbled up» means made quickly and roughly from other things

### examples

- He cobbles old shoes for the village. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cobble/#x1)
- I cobbled this story together from three books. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cobble/#x2)
- We cobbled a tent from sticks and sheets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cobble/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cobble» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cobble/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.