Word Meanings - COBBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A fishing boat. See Coble.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COBBLE)

• Botch
• Patch
• cobble
• blunder
• clump
• disconcert
• spoil
• jumble
• mess
• bungle
• mar
• blacksmith
• clout
• piece
• Plaster
• Palliate
• patch
• ramp
• tinker
• bolster

Related words: (words related to COBBLE)

• TINKER
  A small mortar on the end of a staff. A young mackerel about two years old. The chub mackerel. The silversides. A skate. (more info) his trade is to beat a kettle, or because in his work he makes a 1. A mender of brass kettles, pans, and other
• JUMBLEMENT
  Confused mixture.
• TINKERSHIRE; TINKLE
  The common guillemot.
• BOTCH
  1. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease. Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton. 2. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner. 3. Work done in a bungling
• BUNGLER
  A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles. If to be a dunce or a bungler in any profession be shameful, how much more ignominious and infamous to a scholar to be such! Barrow.
• BLUNDERHEAD
  A stupid, blundering fellow.
• BOLSTERER
  A supporter.
• BOTCHERY
  A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship.
• BLUNDERER
  One who is apt to blunder.
• COBBLER
  1. A mender of shoes. Addison. 2. A clumsy workman. Shak. 3. A beverage. See Sherry cobbler, under Sherry. Cobbler fish , a marine fish of the Atlantic. The name alludes to its threadlike fin rays.
• PIECER
  1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
• COBBLE
  A fishing boat. See Coble.
• DISCONCERT
  1. To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy. 2. To confuse the faculties of; to disturb the composure of; to discompose; to abash. The embrace disconcerted
• PIECEMEALED
  Divided into pieces.
• BOLSTERED
  1. Supported; upheld. 2. Swelled out.
• PALLIATE
  1. Covered with a mant Bp. Hall. 2. Eased; mitigated; alleviated. Bp. Fell.
• SPOIL
  1. To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession. "Ye shall spoil the Egyptians." Ex. iii. 22. My sons their old, unhappy sire despise, Spoiled of
• BOTCHERLY
  Bungling; awkward.
• PIECEMEAL
  1. In pieces; in parts or fragments. "On which it piecemeal brake." Chapman. The beasts will tear thee piecemeal. Tennyson. 2. Piece by piece; by little and little in succession. Piecemeal they win, this acre first, than that. Pope.
• BOTCHER
  A young salmon; a grilse. (more info) 1. One who mends or patches, esp. a tailor or cobbler. Shak. 2. A clumsy or careless workman; a bungler.
• EMPLASTER
  See WISEMAN (more info) plaster or salve, fr. Gr.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• DRIFTPIECE
  An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
• CODPIECE
  A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous. Shak. Fosbroke.
• PINPATCH
  The common English periwinkle.
• AFTERPIECE
  The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
• DISPATCHMENT
  The act of dispatching. State Trials .