shoemaker

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

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Noun

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shoemaker (plural shoemakers)

  1. A person who makes shoes
  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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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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