cobble
cobble Lexical Profile
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• verb
To assemble, prepare, or put together something roughly or hastily from available parts (often used with 'together' or 'up').
"The engineering team managed to cobble together a working prototype just hours before the deadline."
To pave a road, walkway, or surface with rounded stones.
"In the eighteenth century, city workers began to cobble the muddy lanes around the market."
To make or mend shoes and boots.
"The village artisan learned to cobble leather boots from his grandfather."
• noun
A small, naturally rounded stone, especially one formerly used for paving streets and courtyards.
"The rain made the ancient cobbles in the town square slippery underfoot."
In geology, a rock fragment larger than a pebble and smaller than a boulder, having a diameter between 64 and 256 millimeters.
"The glacial deposit consisted mostly of smooth gravel and rounded cobbles."
• Rhymes for cobble
Word Origin & Etymology
The noun dates to the 15th century, likely a diminutive of Middle English 'cob' meaning a rounded lump or head. The verb sense of mending shoes or assembling roughly emerged in the late 15th century as a back-formation from 'cobbler'.