cobbler

A person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes.

This honest Cobler has done what he might: / That Statesmen in their Shoes might walk upright. / But rotten Shoes of Spannish running-leather: / No Coblers skill, can stitch them strong together.

[W]hat would they think of a French cobler cutting ſhoes for ſeveral of his fellow-ſubjects out of an old apple-tree?

A sheep left to the end to be sheared (for example, because its wool is filthy, or because it is difficult to catch).

A person who cobbles (“to assemble or mend in an improvised or rough way”); a clumsy workman.

Truely Sir, in reſpect of a fine Workman, / I am but as you would ſay, a Cobler.

An (iced) alcoholic drink containing spirit or wine, with lemon juice and sugar.

[H]e produced a very large tumbler, piled up to the brim with little blocks of clear transparent ice, through which one or two thin slices of lemon, and a golden liquid of delicious appearance, appeared from the still depths below, to the loving eye of the spectator. […] "This wonderful invention, sir," said Mark, tenderly patting the empty glass, "is called a cobbler. Sherry cobbler when you name it long; cobbler, when you name it short.[…]"

In the creed of Asirvadam the Brahmin, the drinker of strong drink is a Pariah, and the eater of cow's flesh is damned already. If, then, he can tell a cocktail from a cobbler, and scientifically discriminate between a julep and a gin-sling, it must be because the Vedas are unclasped to him; for in the Vedas all things are taught.

A roadworker who lays cobbles.