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Shoemaker   /ʃˈumˌeɪkər/   Listen
noun
Shoemaker  n.  
1.
One whose occupation it is to make shoes and boots.
2.
(Zool.)
(a)
The threadfish.
(b)
The runner, 12.





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"Shoemaker" Quotes from Famous Books



... room was fresh strewn with evergreen sprigs; the breakfast-table stood at one end, where each took breakfast, standing, immediately on coming downstairs. At the bottom of the room was a busy group. The shoemaker, who travelled this way twice a year, had appeared this morning, and was already engaged upon the skins which had been tanned on the farm, and kept in readiness for him. He was instructing Oddo in the making of the ...
— Feats on the Fiord - The third book in "The Playfellow" • Harriet Martineau
... in the number of converts which he has made to total abstinence was that brilliant and dramatic platform orator, John B. Gough. When he was a reckless young sot in Worcester, Massachusetts, he had owed his conversion to a touch on his shoulder by a shoemaker, named Joel Stratton, who had invited him to a Washingtonian temperance meeting. Soon after that time he owed his conversion, under God, to the influence of Miss Mary Whitcomb, the daughter of a Boylston farmer in the neighborhood. ...
— Recollections of a Long Life - An Autobiography • Theodore Ledyard Cuyler
... frightened out of his life for his children's eyes. 'Don't be in a passion, pussy. The shoemaker said he had not a shoe in his shop, nor a last that would make one to fit you; and he says, I must bring you into the town for him to ...
— Handy Andy, Vol. 2 - A Tale of Irish Life • Samuel Lover
... not very tidy. Just in time for a most sumptuous breakfast. Sailed to Staten Island; had a most delightful walk to Factoryville; a pleasant breeze. Very large cherry trees. Found Ward in humble circumstances, a shoemaker; built a house costing 650 dollars, let the upper part for 100 dollars and occupied the base himself with a second wife, his former wife and child ...
— A Journey to America in 1834 • Robert Heywood
... loved to excel his fellow-man even in the smallest things. He not only felt a first-place prominence in the little society of the village, he strove to surpass the least person in it if there was any point of competition between them. It would have been a source of mortification to him if the shoemaker had grown a larger turnip than he ...
— A Circuit Rider's Wife • Corra Harris


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