[f. COBBLE v.1 + -ING1.] The action of the verb COBBLE, q.v.

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1634.  Canne, Necess. Separ. (1849), 44. Their old former occupation of husbandry, cobbling, cookery.

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a. 1764.  Lloyd, Cobbler Tessington (R.). Cobbling extends a thousand ways, Some cobble shoes, some cobble plays.

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1883.  J. Parker, Tyne Chylde, 306. A trumpery question of social cobbling.

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