Middle English Dictionary Entry
cobeler(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | cobeler(e n. Also cobbeler, cobler. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
One who mends shoes, cobbler; ~ roue, Cobblers' Row.
Associated quotations
- (1287) Rec.Norwich 23 : De diuersis tenementis in foro super le Cobelere Rowe.
- (1295) in Fransson Surn.132 : Hugo le Cobeler.
- (1381) RParl.3.112a : Willelmus Pouchemaker, Cobeler.
- c1390 PPl.A(1) (Vrn)5.170 : Clement þe Cobelere caste of his cloke.
- (1395) Wycl.37 Concl.(Tit D.1)93 : If they seyn that thei performe..gostli officis bi vicaries or parish prestis, thus mighte a coblere do [etc.].
- a1400 Ancr.Recl.(Pep 2498)75/7 : Seint mark made a cobler a Bisschop.
- (1422) Plea & Mem.in Bk.Lond.E.124/105 : The Cobeler duellyng afor the Abbot of Waltham gate.
- a1456(a1426) Lydg.Mum.Hertford (Trin-C R.3.20)55 : And Colyn Cobeller, folowing his felawe, Haþe hade his part of þe same lawe.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)84 : Cobler, supra in Clowtere.
- a1450 Terms Assoc.(1) (Rwl D.328)604 : A plukke of cobelers..a dronkesyp of coblers.
- (1465) Statutes Realm2.414 : Nulle persone, Cordewaner ou Cobeler, deinz la Citee de Loundres.
- (1473-4) Proc.Chanc.in Cal.PCEliz.1.p.xciv : Rauf John, of the citee of London, cobeler..for the sustentacon of hym, his poure wif & children made certain peyre of shoes, for the whiche makyng the wardeyns of the shomakers toke from hym the said shoes.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)26b : A Cobyller vbi Clowtter.