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# cobble

verb (cobble, cobbles, cobbled, cobbling)

«cobble» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To cobble is to mend old shoes, especially by hand. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cobble/#m2)

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

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «cobble» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cobble/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«cobble» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/cobble.html) on Mova free.