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shoemaker

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From Middle English shomaker, equivalent to shoe +‎ maker. Compare Dutch schoenmaker, German Schuhmacher, Danish skomager.

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shoemaker (plural shoemakers)

  1. A person who makes shoes.
    • 1833, Arabella Sullivan, Recollections of a Chaperon‎[1], volume 1, London: Richard Bentley, page 229:
      He especially recommended the only shoemaker who, to his mind, had an idea of making a shoe; and Lucy had at least half-a-dozen pair made, fitted, and descanted upon, before he was satisfied that they did justice to the shape of her foot, which proved extremely good when it was properly chaussé.
    • 1911 October, W. R. D., “Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General’s Office, United States Army. Authors and Subjects. Second Series, Vol. XV. S—Skin Grafting. (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1910.)”, in American Journal of Insanity, volume LXVIII, number 2, page 327:
      The diseases of shoemakers receive attention as well as the toxicology of shoepolish.
  2. The threadfish.
  3. A fish, Elagatis pinnulatis, the runner.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “shoemaker”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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