Shoemaker
['ʃuːmeɪkə] or ['ʃʊ'mekɚ]
Definition
(n.) One whose occupation it is to make shoes and boots.
(n.) The threadfish.
(n.) The runner, 12.
Typist: Montague
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Crispin.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To see a shoemaker in your dream, warns you that indications are unfavorable to your advancement. For a woman to dream that her husband or lover is a shoemaker, foretells competency will be hers; her wishes will be gratified.
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Examples
- The dissenting shoemaker wanted Miss Briggs to send his son to college and make a gentleman of him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- When he had stood, for a minute or two, by the side of Defarge, the shoemaker looked up. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The tailor does not attempt to make his own shoes, but buys them of the shoemaker. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Those of the master shoemaker are a little, though but a very little, more expensive. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The Muhammadan merchant, tinman, shoemaker, or vendor of trifles sits cross-legged on the floor and reaches after any article you may want to buy. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- That's odd, said Mr. Limp, a meditative shoemaker, with weak eyes and a piping voice. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Prior to 1861 shoemaking was confined to the slow, laborious hand methods of the shoemaker. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It happened, at length, that he had occasion to change the instrument in his hand, for his shoemaker's knife. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- There was a longer pause than usual, before the shoemaker replied: I forget what it was you asked me. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I want, said Defarge, who had not removed his gaze from the shoemaker, to let in a little more light here. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The shoemaker looked up as before, but without removing a hand from his work. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Until within a recent period the trade of shoemaker was an active one, all boots and shoes being made by hand. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I am not a shoemaker by trade? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- You are not a shoemaker by trade? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- A single shoemaker will make more than 300 pairs of shoes in the year; and his own family will not, perhaps, wear out six pairs. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- A spool containing thread coated with shoemakers’ wax is carried by the horn, and the thread, with its wax kept soft by a lamp, runs up the inside of the horn to the whirl. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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