cobbler

noun

1. 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?”

   “All honeſt jogg trotmen, who go on ſmoothly and dully, and write hiſtory and politics, and are praiſed; and who, had they been bred coblers, would all their lives have only mended ſhoes, but never made them.”

   “But what of that vast number of the human kind who were always in the background? What of the hewers of wood and drawers of water, the swineherds, the shepherds, the carpenters, the hedgers and cobblers?”

2. (Australia, New-Zealand, slang)A sheep left to the end to be sheared (for example, because its wool is filthy, or because it is difficult to catch).
3. (obsolete)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.”

4. (US)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.”

   “It was very hot when Captain Littledale was here; he did nothing but drink sherry cobblers.”

5. A roadworker who lays cobbles.
6. (British, dialectal)The shiny, hard seed of the horse chestnut tree (Aesculus hippocastanum), especially when used in the game of the same name (sense 1.2); a conker, a horse chestnut.

   “["A]n' 'e was mad, an' so he snatched my cobbler an' run off with it. An' so I run after 'im, an' when I was gettin' hold of him, 'e dodged, an' it ripped 'is collar. But I got my cobbler—" He pulled from his pocket a black old horse-chestnut hanging on a string. This old cobbler had "cobbled"—hit and smashed—seventeen other cobblers on similar strings. So this boy was proud of his veteran.”

7. (British, dialectal)Synonym of conkers (“a game for two players in which the participants each have a horse-chestnut (known as a cobbler (sense 1.1) or conker) suspended from a length of string, and take turns to strike their opponent's conker with their own with the object of destroying the opponent's conker before their own is destroyed”).
8. (Australia)Used as a name for various animals.

   “Fished for cobblers in the evening. The warbler sings its night-song.”

9. (Australia)Used as a name for various animals.
10. (British)Used as a name for various animals.
11. (British)Used as a name for various animals.
12. (US)Used as a name for various animals.
13. (plural-normally, slang)A police officer.

    “Look out: it’s the cobblers!”

14. (US)Often preceded by a descriptive word as in apple cobbler, peach cobbler, etc.: a kind of pie, usually filled with fruit, originally having a crust at the base but nowadays generally lacking this and instead topped with a thick, cake-like pastry layer.

    “I have selected a few dishes, and made out a little bill of fare, which will go home in the steamer that precedes me, and be hot when I arrive—as follows: […] Apple puffs, Southern style. Peach cobbler, Southern style. Peach pie. American mince pie.”

    “The Al Qaeda online magazine 'Inspire' has a recipe for a homemade bomb. They also have a recipe for a pretty darn good peach cobbler.”

15. (Cockney, in-plural, slang)A testicle.
16. (Cockney, figuratively, in-plural, slang)Nonsense.
17. A person from Northamptonshire (traditionally a centre for shoemaking)