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| Matching Terms: | | cobble together, cobble up, cobbler, cobblers, cobbler's last, cobblestone, cobblestoned, cobbling
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- [n] rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads
- [v] repair or mend; "cobble shoes"
- [v] pave with cobblestones
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| | Synonyms: | | cobblestone, sett |
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| | See Also: | | bushel, doctor, fix, furbish up, mend, pave, paving stone, repair, restore, touch on |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Cob"ble\, n.
A fishing boat. See {Coble}.
\Cob"ble\, n. [From {Cob} a lump. See {Cob}, n., 9, and
cf. {Copple}, {Copplestone}.]
1. A cobblestone. ``Their slings held cobbles round.''
--Fairfax.
2. pl. Cob coal. See under {Cob}.
\Cob"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cobbled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Cobbling}.] [OF. cobler, copler, to join or knit together,
couple, F. coupler, L. copulare to couple, join. Cf.
{Couple}, n. & v. t.]
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.
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| | Definition: | | - Rock smaller than boulder and larger than gravel; arbitrarily 1 to 50 pounds or 2 to 8 inches in diameter.
- Substrate particles 64 to 256 mm (2.5 to 10 inches) in diameter. Often subclassified as small (64 to 128 mm) and large cobble (128 to 256 mm).
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