cobbles in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for cobbles in the English»French Dictionary

I.cobbles N

cobbles npl:

cobbles

pavés mpl

II.cobble [Brit ˈkɒb(ə)l, Am ˈkɑbəl] VB trans

1. cobble road:

cobble

paver

2. cobble shoes:

cobble

faire

III.cobble [Brit ˈkɒb(ə)l, Am ˈkɑbəl] VB intr

cobble (make)

faire des chaussures

cobble (mend)

réparer des chaussures

I.cobble together VB [Brit ˈkɒb(ə)l -, Am ˈkɑbəl -] (cobble [sth] together, cobble together [sth])

cobble together statement, excuse, plan:

cobble together

concocter [qc] à la hâte

Translations for cobbles in the French»English Dictionary

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leurs bottes martelaient le pavé

their boots pounded on the cobbles

torcher article, rapport (bâcler) article, rapport

to cobble [sth] together

entendre le bruit des charrettes sur les pavés

to hear carts rattling over the cobbles

cobbles in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for cobbles in the English»French Dictionary

I.cobble¹ [ˈkɒbl, Am ˈkɑ:bl] N (stone)

cobble

pavé m

II.cobble¹ [ˈkɒbl, Am ˈkɑ:bl] VB trans

cobble

paver

cobble² [ˈkɒbl, Am ˈkɑ:bl] VB trans (repair)

cobble

réparer

cobble together VB trans

cobble together

bricoler

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

Les heard that cash was being offered for cobbles, but when he dug one up, he dropped it on his toe.

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He is transformed from an insensate prisoner who mindlessly cobbles shoes into a man of distinction.

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The pavements were composed of limestone slabs, of basalt cobbles or clay.

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This conglomerate is composed of a grey feldspathic sand matrix and well-rounded pebbles and cobbles of quartzite, granite, felsite, and quartz monzonite.

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It turned out that the cobbles acted as an amplifier for the shock waves, multiplying their intensity and deflecting them in random directions.

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A bean sprout peeks through the cobbles in a village square one morning.

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Until then the race had been over cobbles not because they were bad but because that was how roads were made.

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For this reason the previous cobbles were replaced with an asphalt surface.

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Shaped cobbles (called choppers) were probably also used to extract the marrow from inside the bones, or to chop up plant foods.

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The clay layers include incongruous cobbles and boulders, dropstones which melted free from icebergs floating above.

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