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Meanings of cordwainer in English
Person who makes or repairs shoes.
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Examples for "cobbler"
Examples for "cobbler"
1
By the time our cobbler arrived we'd focused on the central question.
2
What the cobbler saw was chiefly the theological difficulties of the time.
3
Then the cobbler took a girdle and painted this rhyme upon it:
4
The cobbler spread the bear's skin upon the floor near the fire.
5
The truth was, I had rung the bell and ordered a sherry-cobbler.
1
Flipper's father resides here, and is a first-class boot and shoe maker.
2
We had our shoes made to order by the shoe maker.
3
The company still owns the upmarket shoe maker Church's and footwear company Car Shoe.
4
Timberland, the US-based shoe maker, produces its top-selling Earthkeepers line with soles made from recycled tires.
5
Revenue at Collective Brands, which bought shoe maker Stride Rite last year, rose marginally to $867 million.
Usage of cordwainer in English
1
Was a cordwainer, on Devonshire Street, residing on Brattle Street.
2
I heard she was expected at the old cordwainer's.
3
Daniel Elston, aged 34, late of Waddington, cordwainer, com.
4
No wonder that the regular Crispins are jealous of a foreign cordwainer who can do this.
5
Her name was Mary Ann Purcel, and she was the daughter of a respectable cordwainer of London.
6
In places their long suckers, growing downwards to the stream, resembled a cordwainer's walk set on end.
7
Tanners who make a notorious default in leather which is found by a cordwainer shall make a forfeiture.
8
From this comes also our English word cordwainer.]
9
First I would go to the tailor and the cordwainer, and be fitted for my new splendours as an archer of the guard.
10
So the people that make them from scratch, you can always use a fancy word besides shoemaker, you can call them a cordwainer.
11
No shoemaker nor cordwainer shall tan their leather and no tanner shall make shoes, in order that tanning not be false or poorly done.
12
Man, heave your great lubberly bones out of that chair and salute a poor devil whom, as you put it, a cordwainer's daughter has jilted.
13
An apprentice of a cordwainer in the town ran away in 1764, or, as it was worded on the police notice, "did elope from service."
14
And except himself all the cordwainers in the town were idle, and without work.
15
In Philadelphia the cordwainers, printers, and hatters had societies.
16
London streets in existence by this time include Cordwainer, Silver, Cannon (Candlewick), and Roper.
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Cordwainer through the time