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shoemaker Definition

shoe·maker (-māk′ər)

noun

a person whose business is making or repairing shoes

shoemaker Related Forms
shoe·mak′ing noun
shoemaker Synonyms

shoemaker

n.

cobbler, Crispin, shoe mender, shoe repairer, mender of shoes, bootmaker; see also craftsman.

shoemaker Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • become: Wilson then moved to Natick, Massachusetts, where he became a shoemaker.
  • have: A village of any size generally had a shoemaker.

Adjective modifier

  • Kenyan: John on Trading Places End of the production line for Kenyan shoemakers?
  • poor: He was born in Lewes, son of a poor shoemaker.
  • local: George Smith was born here in 1845, the youngest son of the local shoemaker.
  • good: The taking of our lives - lives of a good shoemaker and a poor fish peddler - all!
  • old: George Swift was a nineteen year old shoemaker in 1819.
  • German: The porter, a German shoemaker living in a loft, had paid the money and kept the box.

Modifies a noun

  • poet: Walk toward the 2 old Chapels and on the right-hand corner you will find the grave of John Askham - Wellingborough's shoemaker poet.
  • shop: Cleaning sheds were re-appropriated for use as follows, Tailors and shoemakers shops, September 1939.
  • george: Secretary of defense professional philosophers wince formthe shoemaker george most of the.

Noun used with modifier

  • journeyman: There the chair was taken by David Morgan, a journeyman shoemaker.
  • master: Those of a master shoemaker are a little, tho but a very little more expensive.
  • apprentice: William began work at 6 years old in a pin factory then as an apprentice shoemaker.

Possessives

  • shop: The last shoemaker's shop closed down around 26 years ago, says Nelson.
  • wife: Finally, the shoemaker's wife knitted two tiny pairs of socks.
  • son: The shoemaker's son set off for Rome without delay.
  • workshop: The one exception was the establishment of a shoemaker's workshop.

Preposition: in

  • town: Hollamby had been working as a shoemaker in the town since at least 1841.

Preposition: by

  • trade: I think he was a shoemaker by trade and lived in the Lanark Burgh in Glasgow.
shoemaker Quotes

Words should be an intense pleasure, just as leather should be to a shoemaker.

—Waugh, Evelyn Arthur StJohn

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