cobbler

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Therefore, as the proverbial place for the cobbler is his last, so more than ever the place for the clergyman is his church, his pulpit, and those various spiritual offices for which he is presumably "chosen."

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  1. noun One who mends or makes boots and shoes.
  2. noun Archaic One who is clumsy at work; a bungler.
  3. noun A deep-dish fruit pie with a thick top crust.
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  • Dessert was strawberry cobbler (the USA Today writer included Helen's Place for their cobbler) and was he ever right about it - it was * excellent* as was everything. —  Deep Fried Kudzu
  • It can take as many as four years to learn how to be a cobbler, and most shops are family-owned businesses with few employees. —  News & Record Article Feed
  • The deep dish apple cobbler, a gooey mess of baked apples with spices, is topped with a scoop of real vanilla ice cream (RMB35), was comforting and decadent -- the perfect way to end a night at one of Shanghai's friendlist steakhouses. —  Chinalyst - China blogs in English
  • In his mid teens he started working as a cobbler, before taking a job, which he would hold for seven years, as a conductor on the tram between El Harrach and Bab el Oued. —  VOA News: Top Stories
  • Gin-sling, cock-tail, mint-julep, are about as vulgar as blue ruin and old tom at home; but sherry cobbler is an affair of consideration. —  Married ...with dinner
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  1. Middle English cobeler.
  2. Origin unknown.

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  1. from Middle English cobelere, cobeler, cobbeler, from cobelen, cobble, + -er: see cobbleand-er.
  2. apparently orig. cobbler's punch: see under cobbler.
 

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