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Cobblestone is a natural building material based on cobble-sized stones, and is used for pavement roads, streets, and buildings. Setts , also called Belgian blocks , are often referred to as "cobbles", [ 1 ] although a sett is distinct from a cobblestone by being quarried and shaped into a regular form, while cobblestones are naturally ...
Vance’s shocking words — and the prospects of American disengagement — were so traumatic, they prompted French President Emmanuel Macron to cobble together an emergency summit of European ...
Cobblers originated in the British American colonies. [2] English settlers were unable to make traditional suet puddings due to lack of suitable ingredients and cooking equipment, [2] so instead covered a stewed filling with a layer of uncooked plain biscuits, scone batter or dumplings, fitted together. [3]
The phrase originated as Cockney rhyming slang where "cobblers" refers to cobbler's awls which rhymes with "balls" (), as in the exclamation "Balls!"for "Nonsense!". [1] [2] The use of the rhyme allows a taboo word, in this case the vulgar exclamation "balls!", to be avoided. [3]
Contrary to his hopes, however, the conservative CDU won on Sunday with Friedrich Merz expected to become Germany’s next chancellor as soon as he can cobble together a governing coalition. Merz ...
A cobble (sometimes a cobblestone) is a clast of rock defined on the Udden–Wentworth scale as having a particle size of 64–256 millimeters (2.5–10.1 in), larger than a pebble and smaller than a boulder. Other scales define a cobble's size differently. A rock made predominantly of cobbles is termed a conglomerate.
This wasn’t another lucky-to-escape game as they’d cobble together in recent weeks. This was a complete performance. “We've been saying it all year: No matter how it looks, we're just trying ...
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...