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Woodcut of shoemakers from Frankfurt am Main, 1568. Two shoemakers in Vietnam in 1923. Shoemaking is the process of making footwear.. Originally, shoes were made one at a time by hand, often by groups of shoemakers, or cordwainers (sometimes misidentified as cobblers, who repair shoes rather than make them [citation needed]).
This usage distinction is not universally observed, as the word cobbler is widely used for tradespersons who make or repair shoes. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The Oxford English Dictionary [ 5 ] says that the word cordwainer is archaic, "still used in the names of guilds, for example, the Cordwainers' Company "; but its definition of cobbler mentions ...
An ultracrepidarian—from ultra-("beyond") and crepidarian ("things related to shoes")—is a person considered to have ignored this advice and to be offering opinions they know nothing about.
A cabriolet on wet, slippery London cobblestones in 1823.. During the medieval period, cobblestone streets became common in many European towns and cities.Cobblestones were readily available, as they were often naturally occurring stones found in riverbeds and fields.
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, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
The leprechaun is said to be a solitary creature, whose principal occupation is making and cobbling shoes, and who enjoys practical jokes. [19] In McAnally's 1888 account, the Leprechaun was not a professional cobbler, but was frequently seen mending his own shoes, as "he runs about so much he wears them out" with great frequency. This is, he ...
A beam coupling. A beam coupling, also known as helical coupling, is a flexible coupling for transmitting torque between two shafts while allowing for angular misalignment, parallel offset and even axial motion, of one shaft relative to the other.
The shoe lasts of Queen Victoria from 1898 and Earl Mountbatten of Burma at John Lobb Bootmaker in London. Bespoke shoes or custom shoes are shoes made especially for a certain customer by a shoemaker. [1]