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# cobbling

«cobbling» in Mova's school dictionary: **the work of mending old shoes** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (cobbling); verb-ing form of cobble

### meaning for a pupil

1) Cobbling is the work of mending old shoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cobbling/#m1)

2) Cobbling can also mean roughly putting things together from odd parts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cobbling/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, the trade of the cobbler, learned like any craft; «his cobbling» means his shoe-mending work

### examples

- He was sent to learn cobbling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cobbling/#x1)
- The cobbling took him all morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cobbling/#x2)
- His cobbling of the old tale was not very neat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cobbling/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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