cobble

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɒb.əl/    美 /ˈkɑ.bəl/|[ˈkɑ.bl̩]|/ˈkɔb.əl/|/ˈkɒb.əl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A cobblestone.
    — The narrow streets that twist and turn through the compact heart of Dent are surfaced with cobbles which, in the absence of pavements, spread right across from doorstep to doorstep.
  2. Alternative form of coble (“a kind of fishing-boat”). alt-of,alternative
  3. A particle from 64 to 256 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
  4. A piece of steel that becomes malformed during its manufacture or rolling.
    — These men are located near the rolls in a pulpit, which is usually completely inclosed with heavy close-meshed netting or boiler plate, so that if a cobble occurs they will be protected from the rods which fly in all directions on such occasions.
动词 v.
  1. To make shoes (what a cobbler does). intransitive
  2. To assemble in an improvised way. transitive
    — I cobbled something together to get us through till morning.
  3. To use cobblestones to pave a road, walkway, etc. intransitive,transitive

词形变化

cobbles plural cobbles present,singular,third-person cobbling participle,present cobbled participle,past cobbled past cobbles plural

词汇关系

衍生词
cobbly cobble together cobble up recobble

词源

词源 1
From Middle English cobill, kobill (used in various combinations with ston, stan (“stone”), note, nutt (“nut”), etc.), probably a diminutive of Middle English *cob, *cobb, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kubb- (“lump; round object”). Equivalent to cob + -le.
词源 2
See coble.
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