shoemaker

«shoemaker» in Mova's school dictionary: making or repairing shoes and boots — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a shoemaker, shoemakers)

meaning for a pupil

1) A person whose job is making or repairing shoes and boots. tree →

2) (stories) A character in fairy tales, like "The Elves and the Shoemaker". tree →

sense in the lessons

In history lessons, shoemaking was a common trade before factories; shoemakers worked by hand with leather. In stories, "The Elves and the Shoemaker" by the Brothers Grimm tells of elves secretly making shoes at night. Today a person who repairs shoes is often called a cobbler. Phrases: the shoemaker's shop, the Elves and the Shoemaker.

examples

• The shoemaker cut the leather carefully. tree →
• In "The Elves and the Shoemaker", elves make shoes at night. tree →
• Long ago, every village had a shoemaker. tree →
• The shoemaker fixed the hole in my boot. tree →
• A shoemaker uses a hammer, nails and thread. tree →
• My great-grandmother's father was a shoemaker. tree →
• "Where is the water, wife?" said the shoemaker. tree →

note

Countable. One word. "Cobbler" usually means someone who repairs shoes (and is also a fruit pudding). The surname Schumacher means shoemaker in German.

In the corpora

• In 1994 pieces of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed into Jupiter, leaving dark scars bigger than the Earth.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «shoemaker» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.