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# shoemaker

«shoemaker» in Mova's school dictionary: **making or repairing shoes and boots** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a shoemaker, shoemakers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person whose job is making or repairing shoes and boots. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoemaker/#m1)

2) (stories) A character in fairy tales, like "The Elves and the Shoemaker". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoemaker/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons, shoemaking was a common trade before factories; shoemakers worked by hand with leather. In stories, "The Elves and the Shoemaker" by the Brothers Grimm tells of elves secretly making shoes at night. Today a person who repairs shoes is often called a cobbler. Phrases: the shoemaker's shop, the Elves and the Shoemaker.

### examples

- The shoemaker cut the leather carefully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoemaker/#x1)
- In "The Elves and the Shoemaker", elves make shoes at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoemaker/#x2)
- Long ago, every village had a shoemaker. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoemaker/#x3)
- The shoemaker fixed the hole in my boot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoemaker/#x4)
- A shoemaker uses a hammer, nails and thread. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoemaker/#x5)
- My great-grandmother's father was a shoemaker. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoemaker/#x6)
- "Where is the water, wife?" said the shoemaker. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shoemaker/#x7)

### note

Countable. One word. "Cobbler" usually means someone who repairs shoes (and is also a fruit pudding). The surname Schumacher means shoemaker in German.

### In the corpora

- [In 1994 pieces of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed into Jupiter, leaving dark scars bigger than the Earth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/10-jupiter/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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