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cobbler | hammer |

As a noun cobbler

is a person who repairs shoes.

As a verb hammer is

.

cobbler

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who repairs shoes.
  • (Addison)
  • A person who lays cobbles
  • A kind of pie, usually filled with fruit, that lacks a base crust.
  • (slang, usually plural) A police officer.
  • Look out, it's the cobblers ! .
  • An alcoholic drink containing spirit or wine, with sugar and lemon juice.
  • * 1858 June, , Volume 2, Number 1,
  • In the creed of Asirvadam the Brahmin, the drinker of strong drink is a Pariah, and the eater of cow's flesh is damned already. If, then, he can tell a cocktail from a cobbler , and scientifically discriminate between a julep and a gin-sling, it must be because the Vedas are unclasped to him; for in the Vedas all things are taught.
  • (obsolete) A clumsy workman.
  • * 1599 , , I. i. 11:
  • Truly, sir, in respect of a fine workman, I / am but, as you would say, a cobbler .

    Synonyms

    * (person who repairs shoes) shoemender, shoe repairer, shoemaker (person fabricating shoes) * (police officer) see

    Anagrams

    *

    hammer

    English

    (wikipedia hammer)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
  • A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.
  • (anatomy) The malleus of the ear.
  • (music) In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.
  • (sports) A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.
  • (curling) The last rock in an end.
  • (Ultimate Frisbee) A frisbee throwing style in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown above the head.
  • Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.
  • One who, or that which, smites or shatters.
  • St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.
  • * J. H. Newman
  • He met the stern legionaries [of Rome] who had been the massive iron hammers of the whole earth.

    Derived terms

    * ball peen hammer * claw hammer * cross peen hammer * hammer and sickle * hammerhead * hammer toe * sledgehammer * straight peen hammer * war hammer * Warrington hammer

    See also

    * mallet

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.
  • To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
  • * Dryden
  • hammered money
  • (figuratively) To emphasize a point repeatedly.
  • (sports) To hit particularly hard.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2010 , date=December 28 , author=Marc Vesty , title=Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=This time the defender was teed up by Andrew Johnson's short free-kick on the edge of the box and Baird hammered his low drive beyond Begovic's outstretched left arm and into the bottom corner, doubling his goal tally for the season and stunning the home crowd. }}
  • To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.
  • I could hear the engine’s valves hammering once the timing rod was thrown.
  • (figuratively, sports) To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly
  • We hammered them 5-0!

    Derived terms

    * (adjective) * hammerer * (verb)

    See also

    * hammer out