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What is the noun for cobble?

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cobbler
  1. A person who makes and repairs shoes.
  2. A person who lays cobbles.
  3. A kind of pie, usually filled with fruit, that lacks a crust at the base.
  4. (plural) A police officer.
  5. An alcoholic drink containing spirit or wine, with sugar and lemon juice.
  6. (obsolete) A clumsy workman.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “His father was a poor cobbler with great cultural aspirations and his mother a semi-literate washerwoman.”
      “Everyone ordered dessert which consisted of a peach cobbler pie, three chocolate sundaes, a banana split and two tiramisus.”
      “Paulette had fixed her grits for breakfast, a peach cobbler pie at tea time, and a lunch of chicken cordon bleu.”
cobb
  1. A sea-cob or gull.
  2. A pier made from cobblestones.
  3. A hand-basket, especially made from wicker.
  4. A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe. Also called cob, rammed earth or pisé.
  5. (US) A knock or blow.
  6. Examples:
    1. “We started off our meal with the fried green tomatoes, corn on the cobb, roasted corn and Parmesan risotto fritters.”
      “Miraculously, Cobb survived a torn aorta, torn diaphragm, collapsed left lung and kidney failure.”
      “When Johnson refused to restore Cobb, the players sat out the next game, in Philadelphia.”
cobble
  1. A cobblestone.
  2. (geology) A particle from 64 to 256 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
  3. Alternative form of coble (a kind of fishing-boat).
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  5. Examples:
    1. “I found a beautiful old cobble lying along the path, perfect for adding to my collection of unique stones.”
cobbling
  1. The work of a cobbler; shoemaking.
  2. The process of cobbling something together; improvised assembly.
cobblestoning
  1. (medicine) Any lumpy appearance of the trachea, lungs, etc. caused by regular nodules.
cobblestone
  1. A rounded stone from a river bed, fit for use as ballast in ships and for paving roads.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The fog whirled and eddied around her as she stepped out into the cobblestone street.”
      “Careening into the cobblestone street, the blade looked like a guillotine crashing down on its victim.”
      “A little girl ran down a cobblestone path in the middle of an immense flower garden.”
cobblery
  1. The skill or trade of making and mending shoes, as practised by a cobbler.
cobblers
  1. plural of cobbler
  2. (Cockney rhyming slang) testicles.
  3. (Cockney rhyming slang) Nonsense.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “His ancestors were cobblers but diversified into making vividly embroidered leather bags, wallets and chair backs.”
      “We had the candles, hatters, cobblers and bakers representing the strong trades in Rathkeale in the 19th century.”
      “When a mechanics' union campaigned for workingmen's interests in 1828, it was a signal advance for cobblers and their kind.”
cobblestones
  1. plural of cobblestone
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The course has steep hills, and the roads sweep wide, then narrow to cobblestones.”
      “The last drops of the rainfall spattered heavily against the cobblestones as the storm spent itself and shook itself off.”
      “He ushered her into a little shop on a narrow side street paved with cobblestones.”
cobblings
  1. plural of cobbling
cobbles
cobbs
  1. plural of cobb
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