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.