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Word Meanings - SHOEMAKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One whose occupation it is to make shoes and boots. The threadfish. The runner, 12.

Related words: (words related to SHOEMAKER)

  • WHOSESOEVER
    The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
  • OCCUPATION
    1. The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant. 2. That which occupies or engages the time
  • THREADFISH
    The cutlass fish. A carangoid fish having the anterior rays of the soft dorsal and anal fins prolonged in the form of long threads.
  • WHOSE
    The possessive case of who or which. See Who, and Which. Whose daughter art thou tell me, I pray thee. Gen. xxiv. 23. The question whose solution I require. Dryden.
  • BOOTS
    A servant at a hotel or elsewhere, who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.
  • RUNNER
    A slender trailing branch which takes root at the joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the strawberry and the common cinquefoil. 7. The rotating stone of a set of millstones. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, runs; a racer. 2. A
  • TOP-BOOTS
    High boots, having generally a band of some kind of light- colored leather around the upper part of the leg; riding boots.
  • STONERUNNER
    The ring plover, or the ringed dotterel. The dotterel.
  • OVERRUNNER
    One that overruns. Lovelace.
  • INOCCUPATION
    Want of occupation.
  • DISOCCUPATION
    The state of being unemployed; want of occupation.
  • SCRATCH PLAYER; SCRATCH RUNNER
    One that starts from the scratch; hence, one of first-rate ability.
  • PREOCCUPATION
    1. The act of preoccupying, or taking possession of beforehand; the state of being preoccupied; prepossession. 2. Anticipation of objections. South.
  • FORERUNNER
    A piece of rag terminating the log line. (more info) 1. A messenger sent before to give notice of the approach of others; a harbinger; a sign foreshowing something; a prognostic; as, the forerunner of a fever. Whither the forerunner in
  • SLYBOOTS
    A humerous appellation for a sly, cunning, or waggish person. Slyboots was cursedly cunning to hide 'em. Goldsmith.
  • OUTRUNNER
    An offshoot; a branch. "Some outrunner of the river." Lauson.
  • MARCOBRUNNER
    A celebrated Rhine wine.

 

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