[f. COBBLE v.1 + -ED1.] Mended or put together clumsily (esp. of shoes), patched, botched; see the vb.

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1575.  Gascoigne, Wks. (1587), 301. Learne to clout thine old cast cobled shoes.

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1590.  Spenser, F. Q., I. iv. 28. Cobled shoes he ware.

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1622.  Malynes, Anc. Law-Merch., 229. Old shoes, but not cobled.

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1798.  W. Hutton, Autobiog., 19. As I could not afford to pay for binding, I fastened them together in a most cobbled style.

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1864.  Knight, Passages Work. Life, I. i. 120. With patched breeches and cobbled boots.

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