Cobbler

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes.

   “This honest Cobler has done what he might: / That Statesmen in their Shoes might walk upright. / But rotten Shoes of Spannish running-leather: / No Coblers skill, can stitch them strong together.”

2. isim A sheep left to the end to be sheared (for example, because its wool is filthy, or because it is difficult to catch).
3. isim A person who cobbles (“to assemble or mend in an improvised or rough way”); a clumsy workman.

   “Truely Sir, in reſpect of a fine Workman, / I am but as you would ſay, a Cobler.”

4. isim An (iced) alcoholic drink containing spirit or wine, with lemon juice and sugar.

   “It was very hot when Captain Littledale was here; he did nothing but drink sherry cobblers.”

5. isim A roadworker who lays cobbles.
6. isim The shiny, hard seed of the horse chestnut tree (Aesculus hippocastanum), especially when used in the game of the same name (sense 1.2); a conker, a horse chestnut.
7. isim Synonym of conkers (“a game for two players in which the participants each have a horse-chestnut (known as a cobbler (sense 1.1) or conker) suspended from a length of string, and take turns to strike their opponent's conker with their own with the object of destroying the opponent's conker before their own is destroyed”).
8. isim The South Australian catfish (Cnidoglanis macrocephalus), a species of catfish native to Australia which has dorsal and pectoral fins bearing sharp, venomous spines.

   “Fished for cobblers in the evening. The warbler sings its night-song.”

9. isim The soldier or South Australian cobbler (Gymnapistes marmoratus), a brown fish native to southern Australian estuaries which is not closely related to Cnidoglanis macrocephalus, but also has venemous spines on its dorsal and pectoral fins.
10. isim Also river cobbler: basa (Pangasius bocourti), an edible species of shark catfish native to the Chao Phraya and Mekong river basins in Southeast Asia.
11. isim Pangas catfish (Pangasius pangasius), an edible species of shark catfish native to Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, and Pakistan.
12. isim Condica sutor, an owlet moth native to North America.
13. isim A police officer.

    “Look out: it’s the cobblers!”

14. isim Often preceded by a descriptive word as in apple cobbler, peach cobbler, etc.: a kind of pie, usually filled with fruit, originally having a crust at the base but nowadays generally lacking this and instead topped with a thick, cake-like pastry layer.

    “I have selected a few dishes, and made out a little bill of fare, which will go home in the steamer that precedes me, and be hot when I arrive—as follows: […] Apple puffs, Southern style. Peach cobbler, Southern style. Peach pie. American mince pie.”

15. isim A testicle.
16. isim Nonsense.
17. isim A person from Northamptonshire (traditionally a centre for shoemaking)