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# cobbling

noun (cobbling); verb-ing form of cobble

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

## Everyday

1. Cobbling is the work of mending old shoes. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cobbling/#m2)

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

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

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