Synonyms:
cobbler, shoemaker
Meaning: a person who makes or repairs shoes
Usage examples
"I am not a shoemaker by trade?
Does he take me for a shoemaker?'
There was a longer pause than usual, before the shoemaker replied:
The shoemaker looked up as before, but without removing a hand from his work.
When he had stood, for a minute or two, by the side of Defarge, the shoemaker looked up.
It happened, at length, that he had occasion to change the instrument in his hand, for his shoemaker's knife.
He was born at Goerlitz, in Upper Lusatia, in 1575, and followed till his thirtieth year the occupation of a shoemaker.
The shoemaker stopped his work; looked with a vacant air of listening, at the floor on one side of him; then similarly, at the floor on the other side of him; then, upward at the speaker.
The whole night and the whole day the pot was made to boil; there was not a fire-place in the whole town where they did not know what was being cooked, whether it was at the chancellor's or at the shoemaker's.
Monsieur Defarge put this provender, and the lamp he carried, on the shoemaker's bench (there was nothing else in the garret but a pallet bed), and he and Mr. Lorry roused the captive, and assisted him to his feet.