From Middle English cobill, kobill (used in various combinations with ston, stan (“stone”), note, nutt (“nut”), etc.), probably a diminutive of Middle English *cob, *cobb, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kubb- (“lump; round object”). Equivalent to cob + -le.
Cognate to North Germanic kubb-, kobb- (“round object, bulge, heap, islet, seal, bowler hat, etc”).
Meanings
A cobblestone.
The narrow streets that twist and turn through the compact heart of Dent are surfaced with cobbles which, in the absence of pavements, spread right across from doorstep to doorstep. 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 150:
A particle from 64 to 256 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
A piece of steel that becomes malformed during its manufacture or rolling.
Cameras pointed between stands could be saved for 5 or 7 days, enough to troubleshoot cobble or off-level mills. 2009, Vladimir B. Ginzburg, Flat-Rolled Steel Processes: Advanced Technologies, page 231:
The ideal control which they offer the reversing motor is such, when a cobble might be made in the steel mill, the metal can be handled gently, and very often the ingot saved. 1915, Proceedings of Association of Iron & Steel Electrical:
In practical mill work a roller often has to wait days and sometimes weeks before he can catch this condition, as he could not consider the stopping of production while he made a cobble in some particular roll pass that was giving him trouble, and it is mainly by studying the cobbles that the action of the steel can be observed and studied. 1919 April, “Rolling Mill Research Laboratory Founded”, in Blast Furnace and Steel Plant, volume 7:
These men are located near the rolls in a pulpit, which is usually completely inclosed with heavy close-meshed netting or boiler plate, so that if a cobble occurs they will be protected from the rods which fly in all directions on such occasions. 1913, Report on Conditions of Employment in the Iron and Steel Industry in the United States, United States Bureau of Labor:
From Middle English cobill, kobill (used in various combinations with ston, stan (“stone”), note, nutt (“nut”), etc.), probably a diminutive of Middle English *cob, *cobb, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kubb- (“lump; round object”). Equivalent to cob + -le.
Cognate to North Germanic kubb-, kobb- (“round object, bulge, heap, islet, seal, bowler hat, etc”).
Meanings
(intransitive) To make shoes (what a cobbler does).
(transitive) To assemble in an improvised way.
I cobbled something together to get us through till morning.
(intransitive, transitive) To use cobblestones to pave a road, walkway, etc.
fi mukulakivetä (to use cobblestones for paving) · fi kivetä mukulakivillä (to use cobblestones for paving) · cs flikovat (to assemble in an improvised manner) · pl wybrukować (to use cobblestones for paving) · cs sflikovat (to assemble in an improvised manner) · ca adobar (to make shoes) · de schustern (to assemble in an improvised manner) · ca empedrar (to use cobblestones for paving) · ca apedaçar (to assemble in an improvised manner) · de schustern (to make shoes) · gv whaal (to make shoes) · es empedrar (to use cobblestones for paving) · pt fazer sapato (to make shoes) · bg правя нещо как да е (to assemble in an improvised manner) · cs dláždit (to use cobblestones for paving) · pl brukować (to use cobblestones for paving) · bg кърпя обуща (to make shoes) · pt improvisar (to assemble in an improvised manner) · ru топорно собира́ть (to assemble in an improvised manner) · es ensamblar (to assemble in an improvised manner) · pl wyrabiać buty (to make shoes) · fi tehdä kenkiä (to make shoes) · fi kursia kasaan (to assemble in an improvised manner) · cy crydda (to make shoes) · pl sklecić (to assemble in an improvised manner) · nl ineen knutselen (to assemble in an improvised manner) · cs opravit (to assemble in an improvised manner) · ru мостить (to use cobblestones for paving) · pl klecić (to assemble in an improvised manner) · es zapatero (to make shoes) · lt kurpti (to assemble in an improvised manner)
cobble en · NOUN · etymology 2
Etymology
See coble.
Meanings
(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of coble (“a kind of fishing-boat”).