(n.) A beverage. See Sherry cobbler, under Sherry.
Example Sentences:
(1) Across the country motorcycle taxi drivers, cobblers, parking attendants, construction workers and nursery teachers are vying for seats in the country's various legislatures.
(2) The actor Steven Berkoff, who had met Biggs in 1987, when making a film about him that both agreed was "a load of cobblers", praised his "most terrific patter".
(3) The same voice that told me over 50 years ago that the little cobbler boy should have been in school playing and learning with me is telling me now that compassion for the world’s children can be the unifying force that patches humanity’s soul and puts us on the right course again.
(4) Now we will sweep them away," said Mohan Lal, a 42-year-old cobbler in west Delhi.
(5) To which I can only say: this is more cobblers than you'll find on the back end of a Highland ram.
(6) He left Osmondthorpe secondary modern at 14 and worked as a cobbler's assistant and then as a clerk for an undertaker before, in 1950, getting a job as a junior reporter on the Yorkshire Evening Post.
(7) But the audiences at Toronto, which kicks off on Thursday, will be clapping eyes on not one but two Adam Sandler movies: The Cobbler and Men, Women & Children.
(8) Dane Skaife, 25, manager of Timpson's cobblers in Salford, which suffered £80,000 of damage and was closed for six weeks, says: "There's no one to blame.
(9) I tell him I'd heard he was actually making a living as a cobbler.
(10) For glaringly obvious legal reasons I cannot be remotely specific about the contents, but suffice it to say that several friends are mentioned and all the juicy bits (probably cobblers, but amusing for all that) are printed in red.
(11) The Birkenstock family cobblers business was founded in 1774 in the Rhine-side town of Bad Honnef, some 40km south of Bonn in Germany, and is still family-run today.
(12) My dream is of a world where every time someone whose income is in excess of several million a year claims publicly that "nobody works harder" than them, some sort of ridicule siren goes off across every part of the globe that has the luxury of a few minutes to read such cobblers.
(13) Also, you don't have all the make-up cobblers; as a woman, that's a big and very boring part of the job.
(14) Shops hit ranged from pawnbrokers and cobblers to a travel agent.
(15) Obviously anyone with even a passing acqaintance with Massimo Moratti will know that Mourinho is talking complete cobblers - if anyone involved in tonight's match is obsessed with winning the Champions League it's Inter's president.
(16) In December, Johnson called the allegations about the competition “a load of cobblers”.
(17) ‘Wouldn’t the children in the class below us benefit from our textbooks the same as we had – not to mention the cobbler boy and other children unable to attend school?’ Photograph: Alamy My friend and I rented a vegetable cart and walked around the neighbourhood convincing everyone to put their books in the cart rather than throw them away.
(18) His father Moses was an alcoholic and his mother, Eva Mogale, was the daughter of a cobbler cum minister of the Lutheran church.
(19) The real answer to my question to the cobbler boy’s father was not that some people are simply born to work but rather that some things in this world are unjust; and none more so than robbing children of their childhoods.
(20) When Cameron told the Conservative party conference “there’s no reward without effort; no wealth without work; no success without sacrifice”, he was talking cobblers.
Pie
Definition:
(n.) An article of food consisting of paste baked with something in it or under it; as, chicken pie; venison pie; mince pie; apple pie; pumpkin pie.
(n.) See Camp, n., 5.
(n.) A magpie.
(n.) Any other species of the genus Pica, and of several allied genera.
(n.) The service book.
(n.) Type confusedly mixed. See Pi.
(v. t.) See Pi.
Example Sentences:
(1) Other Christmas favourites, including stollen, organic mince pies and Schweppes tonic will also be included among 100 seasonal products on the list of 1,000 items which shoppers can choose from over the next few months.
(2) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
(3) This technique is compared with calculated outline and ring source attenuation correction techniques in a pie phantom.
(4) We describe a premature infant with progressive worsening of unilateral PIE, which was successfully treated by selective bronchial balloon catheterization after failure of conservative management.
(5) Studied were the composition and the technologic properties of the milk of Dutch Black pied cattle under this country's conditions.
(6) Superfusion with 10(-6) to 10(-4) M arachidonic acid resulted in a slow developing positive inotropic effect (PIE) in a concentration-dependent manner.
(7) The 2 Fat Butchers in Walmer offers high-quality free-range meat and excellent pork pies and scotch eggs.
(8) A Staphylococcus strain was inoculated on the top and cut surfaces of freshly baked Southern custard pies which were then packaged in a pasteboard carton and held at 30 C. Daily plate counts of surface sections 0.3 inch (0.76 cm) in thickness were made.
(9) She almost wills her biscuits to dry out and her pies to sink.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The big difference is that I’ve got my finger in all the pies, whereas Lord Farquaad only thought he did.
(11) A total of 33 strains of staphylococci, isolated from Black Pied cows with subclinical mastitis (conformed by the brom-thymol test), were studied to establish their biochemical properties and resistance to antibiotics as well as the occasional correlation between enzyme activity and resistance.
(12) An increase in eosinophils carrying surface IgE was demonstrated in alveolar cells from PIE Syndrome particularly with hypodense eosinophils from CEP patients.
(13) The appearance of PIE and its complications, i.e., pneumothorax and pneumomediastinum, occurred over a wide range of mean airway pressures and positive end-expiratory pressures; there was no direct relationship between barotrauma and mean airway pressure or positive end-expiratory pressure.
(14) MCI-154 (10(-7) to 10(-4) M) produced a concentration-dependent PIE amounting to 75% of the maximal effect of isoproterenol.
(15) The killer's taste in movies stretches from westerns to gangster thrillers to Elvis Presley musicals: apple-pie imports that were boycotted by socialist president Sukarno's coalition before the coup.
(16) A case of PIE syndrome induced by Saiboku-To (TJ96) is reported.
(17) She had a history of PIE syndrome induced by disodium cromoglycate 4 years previously (Jpn.
(18) It will be streamed live here: Monetary Policy Committee August 2013 Inflation Report My colleague Andrew Sparrow will be live-blogging the whole session here: Mark Carney gives evidence to the Commons Treasury committee: Politics live blog 9.52am BST This graphic shows how most of the Royal Mail's revenues come from its parcels and letters divisions, although its European parcels business, GLS, makes a decent contribution (with revenue of £1.5m, out of a total pie of over £9bn.
(19) Safdie himself still maintains a pied-à-terre in the 13-storey building, which stands on a narrow, man-made peninsula just south of the Old Port section of Montreal.
(20) I got it wrong on PIE and I apologise for having done so.