cobble

Plural: cobbles

Noun

rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads
A cobblestone.
A particle from 64 to 256 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
A piece of steel that becomes malformed during its manufacture or rolling.
Alternative form of coble (“a kind of fishing-boat”).

Verb

Verb Forms: cobbled, cobbling, cobbles

To mend or repair shoes; to assemble roughly.
pave with cobblestones
repair or mend
- "cobble shoes"
To make shoes (what a cobbler does).
To assemble in an improvised way.
To use cobblestones to pave a road, walkway, etc.

Examples

He managed to cobble together a decent word, despite having a terrible rack of letters.
I cobbled something together to get us through till morning.

Origin / Etymology

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.

Synonyms

cobblestone, sett

Scrabble Score: 12

cobble: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
cobble: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
cobble: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 16

cobble: valid Words With Friends Word