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      cobbler
      noun
      A person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes.
      (US) Often preceded by a descriptive word as in apple cobbler, peach cobbler, etc.: a kind of pie, usually filled with fruit, originally having a crust at the base but nowadays generally lacking this and instead topped with a thick, cake-like pastry layer.
      (US, alcoholic beverages) An (iced) alcoholic drink containing spirit or wine, with lemon juice and sugar.
      (Australia, New Zealand, agriculture, slang) A sheep left to the end to be sheared (for example, because its wool is filthy, or because it is difficult to catch).
      A roadworker who lays cobbles.
      Used as a name for various animals.
      (usually in the plural, slang) A police officer.
      (US) Condica sutor, an owlet moth native to North America.
      (British) Also river cobbler: basa (Pangasius bocourti), an edible species of shark catfish native to the Chao Phraya and Mekong river basins in Southeast Asia.
      (British) Pangas catfish (Pangasius pangasius), an edible species of shark catfish native to Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, and Pakistan.
      The South Australian catfish (Cnidoglanis macrocephalus), a species of catfish native to Australia which has dorsal and pectoral fins bearing sharp, venomous spines.
      The soldier or South Australian cobbler (Gymnapistes marmoratus), a brown fish native to southern Australian estuaries which is not closely related to Cnidoglanis macrocephalus, but also has venemous spines on its dorsal and pectoral fins.
      (Australia) Also estuary cobbler:
      (Cockney rhyming slang, chiefly in the plural) A testicle.
      (Cockney rhyming slang, in the plural, figurative) Nonsense.
      A person from Northamptonshire (traditionally a centre for shoemaking)
      (British, dialectal) The shiny, hard seed of the horse chestnut tree (Aesculus hippocastanum), especially when used in the game of the same name (sense 1.2); a conker, a horse chestnut.
      (British, dialectal) (games) Synonym of conkers (“a game for two players in which the participants each have a horse-chestnut (known as a cobbler (sense 1.1) or conker) suspended from a length of string, and take turns to strike their opponent's conker with their own with the object of destroying the opponent's conker before their own is destroyed”).
      (obsolete) A person who cobbles (“to assemble or mend in an improvised or rough way”); a clumsy workman.
      Synonyms for cobbler
      shoemakernrepairernmendern
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