Term Gallery logo

Meanings of cobble in English

Portuguese
paralelepípedo

Rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads.

        paralelepípedo
        Synonyms
        Examples for "cobblestone"
        Examples for "cobblestone"
        1
        Lisette guided him along the cobblestone pathways, unerring, sure of her destination.
        The blood that bonds
        2
        Dark water gushed and gurgled past their feet along the cobblestone riverbed.
        Dragons of autumn twilight
        3
        And it could not have more room unless a cobblestone were removed.
        Music Talks with Children
        4
        The instant his feet touched cobblestone, he bolted, hearing Chane close behind.
        Thief of lives
        5
        Just another high cobblestone wall, stretching up into the infinite blackness overhead.
        Ready Player One
        1
        I knew that was why she called you into the sett'n room.
        The Phantom Herd
        2
        They repair, each sett of them, to their respective places of meeting.
        A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 1 / Taken from a View of the ...
        3
        Every family should possess a sett of one of the editions.
        Helen and Arthur; or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel
        4
        The day the speaker arrived, I sett up on my iPhone just to experiment.
        Wired
        5
        I was moved of ye Lord to sett ye Seede Christ Jesus over his heade!
        Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries
        Usage of cobble in English
        1
        The big cannons boomed up the narrow cobble-paved road from the field.
        Red Fleece
        2
        The rattle of wheels on the cobble-stones died out almost at once.
        The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes
        3
        They are pulling six oars, and the cobble is full of men.
        The Northern Iron
        4
        I used to cobble for old nurse when I was at home.
        The Rebel of the School
        5
        It comes with a cobble-locked driveway, a garden and a paved patio.
        Independent.ie
        6
        William stumbled on a cobble and skidded on some pebbles, nearly falling.
        Quantico
        7
        They've got the old salmon cobble out, and they're coming after us.
        The Northern Iron
        8
        Wendy would cobble together a life for her and her genius son.
        The witch of agnesi
        9
        Iraqi factions took five months to cobble together a coalition government last time.
        Reuters
        10
        But they've been able to cobble together an important service for their communities….
        Wired
        11
        Good as any effort they ever cobble together back at St Pete's anyway.
        Pandaemonium
        12
        Typically, print publications cobble together content with HTML to gain an online presence.
        Wired
        13
        They carried me out across nightly lit cobble squares of college.
        A singular man
        14
        It has rattled for years over the cobble-stones of a rough city pavement.
        Over the Teacups
        15
        Alone, she strolled the cobble pathways between the rows of hedge.
        Scorched Earth: A Future History of Planet Earth
        16
        A cart rattled past over the cobble-stones, making speech inaudible for the moment.
        Roden's Corner
        About this term
        More collocations
        Translations for cobble
        Cobble through the time
        Cobble across language varieties
        United States of America
        Common
        United Kingdom
        Common