shoemaker
shoemaker
Definition
shoe·maker (-māk′ər)
noun
a person whose business is making or repairing shoes
shoe′·mak′ing noun
shoemaker
Synonyms
shoemaker
n.
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.
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