mend+shoes

  • 1mend — vb Mend, repair, patch, rebuild are comparable when they mean to put into good or fitting order something that is injured, damaged, or defective. Mend basically implies a freeing from faults or defects {mend your manners} {the wound mended… …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 2shoes — n. 1) to put on; wear shoes 2) to slip off, take off shoes 3) to break in (new) shoes 4) to lace (one s) shoes 5) to polish, shine shoes 6) to fix, mend (esp. BE), repair shoes 7) tight; well fitting shoes 8) basketball; earth; gym shoes;… …

    Combinatory dictionary

  • 3mend — mend1 [mend] v ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(repair)¦ 2¦(become healthy)¦ 3 mend your ways 4 mend (your) fences 5¦(end a quarrel)¦ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ [Date: 1100 1200; Origin: amend] 1.) ¦(REPAIR)¦ [T] a) to repair a tear or hole in a piece of clothi …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 4mend — 1 verb 1 REPAIR (T) a) to repair a tear or hole in a piece of clothing: My father used to mend our shoes. b) BrE to repair something that is broken or not working; fix 1 (1): When are you going to mend that light in the hall? 2 BECOME HEALTHY (I) …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 5Shoemaking — Shoemaker redirects here. For other uses, see Shoemaker (disambiguation). Woodcut of shoemakers from 1568 …

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  • 6cobble — I. v. a. 1. Botch, tinker, patch up, mend clumsily. 2. Bungle, botch, do clumsily, make clumsily. II. v. n. 1. Do cobbler s work, mend shoes. 2. Be a bungler, bungle, botch, do bungling work. III. n. 1 …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 7Hunt the Slipper —    A very popular parlour game, particularly at Victorian family Christmas parties. Oliver Goldsmith s Vicar of Wakefield ((1766), chapter 11) provides a lively description: the company at this play plant themselves in a ring upon the ground, all …

    A Dictionary of English folklore

  • 8Ghorghushti — Infobox Settlement name =Ghorghushti settlement type = official name = other name = native name = nickname = motto = imagesize = image caption = flag size = image seal size = image shield = shield size = image blank emblem = blank emblem type =… …

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  • 9cobble — cobble1 /kob euhl/, v.t. cobbled, cobbling. 1. to mend (shoes, boots, etc.); patch. 2. to put together roughly or clumsily. [1490 1500; appar. back formation from COBBLER] cobble2 /kob euhl/, n., v., cobbled, cobbling. n. 1. a cobblestone …

    Universalium

  • 10cobbler — [[t]kɒ̱blə(r)[/t]] cobblers 1) N COUNT A cobbler is a person whose job is to make or mend shoes. [OLD FASHIONED] 2) N UNCOUNT If you describe something that someone has just said as cobblers, you mean that you think it is nonsense. [BRIT,… …

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