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单词 shoemaker
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Definition of shoemaker in English:

shoemaker

noun ˈʃuːmeɪkəˈʃuˌmeɪkər
  • A person who makes shoes and other footwear as a profession.

    制鞋工人

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The next largest industrial group were in the clothing trades, most conspicuously tailors and shoemakers.
    • Note that credit here is the transfer of ‘real stuff,’ i.e., eight saved loaves of bread from the baker to the shoemaker in exchange for a future pair of shoes.
    • I just picked up my new sandals from the shoemaker (a little hut by the side of the road, with two men busily hammering and sewing and glueing).
    • Musicians, like shoemakers, construction workers and teachers, are so accustomed to being underpaid that many people consider it counter-productive to even think of paying them fairly.
    • It was then that shoemakers began creating individual shoes for the left and right feet.
    • The balls were probably made by a souter (a shoemaker or cobbler), whose stitching skills were essential to producing a good ball.
    • But then we stepped out at Pingyao, a perfect walled city where the little wooden shops have red lanterns hanging from them, and shoemakers sit making satin slippers until 10 or 11 at night.
    • Also, dancers with mismatched feet can - and often do - fine-tune the size of each shoe with a special order to their shoemaker.
    • Cordwainers, or shoemakers, were another important town trade for centuries.
    • Craftsmen plied their trades as cloth makers, shoemakers, tailors, carpenters, butchers and malt makers while weekly or monthly markets provided an outlet for surplus agricultural produce.
    • At the bottom of the scale were trades serving local markets, such as carpenters, masons, bakers, or shoemakers.
    • Spanish shoemakers are complaining that Chinese shoes take away almost all their business, by undercutting their prices, party through illegal means.
    • Every shoemaker will tell you why their shoes are the best for everybody but of course that's all marketing hype.
    • For instance, the baker can now exchange his saved bread for a pair of shoes with a shoemaker.
    • He is drawn to the lanes of the city day after day, his camera capturing images of locksmiths, shoemakers, barbers, tailors and residents going about their daily affairs.
    • Within a country when a baker imports shoes from a shoemaker he pays with the bread he produced.
    • Although the young town had its own blacksmiths, wheelwrights, shoemakers and ropemakers, it never developed its own business centre.
    • It had two butchers, two coopers, two weavers, a shoemaker, blacksmith, a cornmill, a pound, a lime kiln and, of course, a pub.
    • He was the second oldest of nine children born to John and Mary Ann Quinn, a shoemaker and a talented dressmaker respectively.
    • The hats were the size of a coin, with each little shoe fashioned by famous French shoemakers of the time.
    • Quality shoemakers know this and offer a wide range of comfortable footwear options.
    • The designs are beautiful drawings, but the costume builders and shoemakers must have had to make many adjustments for a dancer's body.
    • The membership was composed not as yet of the very poor but of disgruntled students and schoolteachers, and the usual artisan élite of printers, builders, and shoemakers.
    • The German shoemaker began selling sneakers with three stripes along the side more than 50 years ago, and expanded into clothing around 1967.
    • When everything settled down, we showed the drawings of the shoes to the shoemaker.
    Synonyms
    cobbler, bootmaker
    Scottish &amp Northern English souter
    archaic cordwainer, snob, snab
    rare broguer, clogger

Derivatives

  • shoemaking

  • noun ˈʃuːmeɪkɪŋˈʃuˌmeɪkɪŋ
    • In addition, job training and employment opportunities are being offered in various sectors such as shoemaking, furniture manufacturing and tourist goods production.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A portion of the immigrants were skilled artisans who typically replicated their old-world crafts of shoemaking and repairing, tailoring, carpentry, and barbering.
      • The in-kind payments included cords of wood, hauling hay, a hat, plowing, shoemaking, as well as wheat, flour, corn, and coffee.
      • It also has been noted that shoemaking was called ‘the gentle craft’ because it does not require much violent, physical exertion.
      • For example, a shoemaker would limit his activity to shoemaking.
      • Home ‘cottage’ industries include dressmaking, carpentry, and shoemaking.
      • Things like carpentry, cooking, farming, tailoring and shoemaking were seeds for businesses that could be started at home and with little or no capital.

Definition of shoemaker in US English:

shoemaker

nounˈSHo͞oˌmākərˈʃuˌmeɪkər
  • A person who makes shoes and other footwear as a profession.

    制鞋工人

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Every shoemaker will tell you why their shoes are the best for everybody but of course that's all marketing hype.
    • Musicians, like shoemakers, construction workers and teachers, are so accustomed to being underpaid that many people consider it counter-productive to even think of paying them fairly.
    • It was then that shoemakers began creating individual shoes for the left and right feet.
    • The membership was composed not as yet of the very poor but of disgruntled students and schoolteachers, and the usual artisan élite of printers, builders, and shoemakers.
    • Within a country when a baker imports shoes from a shoemaker he pays with the bread he produced.
    • Spanish shoemakers are complaining that Chinese shoes take away almost all their business, by undercutting their prices, party through illegal means.
    • When everything settled down, we showed the drawings of the shoes to the shoemaker.
    • Quality shoemakers know this and offer a wide range of comfortable footwear options.
    • At the bottom of the scale were trades serving local markets, such as carpenters, masons, bakers, or shoemakers.
    • Also, dancers with mismatched feet can - and often do - fine-tune the size of each shoe with a special order to their shoemaker.
    • For instance, the baker can now exchange his saved bread for a pair of shoes with a shoemaker.
    • Craftsmen plied their trades as cloth makers, shoemakers, tailors, carpenters, butchers and malt makers while weekly or monthly markets provided an outlet for surplus agricultural produce.
    • Although the young town had its own blacksmiths, wheelwrights, shoemakers and ropemakers, it never developed its own business centre.
    • The next largest industrial group were in the clothing trades, most conspicuously tailors and shoemakers.
    • The balls were probably made by a souter (a shoemaker or cobbler), whose stitching skills were essential to producing a good ball.
    • Cordwainers, or shoemakers, were another important town trade for centuries.
    • The German shoemaker began selling sneakers with three stripes along the side more than 50 years ago, and expanded into clothing around 1967.
    • He is drawn to the lanes of the city day after day, his camera capturing images of locksmiths, shoemakers, barbers, tailors and residents going about their daily affairs.
    • It had two butchers, two coopers, two weavers, a shoemaker, blacksmith, a cornmill, a pound, a lime kiln and, of course, a pub.
    • But then we stepped out at Pingyao, a perfect walled city where the little wooden shops have red lanterns hanging from them, and shoemakers sit making satin slippers until 10 or 11 at night.
    • Note that credit here is the transfer of ‘real stuff,’ i.e., eight saved loaves of bread from the baker to the shoemaker in exchange for a future pair of shoes.
    • The designs are beautiful drawings, but the costume builders and shoemakers must have had to make many adjustments for a dancer's body.
    • He was the second oldest of nine children born to John and Mary Ann Quinn, a shoemaker and a talented dressmaker respectively.
    • I just picked up my new sandals from the shoemaker (a little hut by the side of the road, with two men busily hammering and sewing and glueing).
    • The hats were the size of a coin, with each little shoe fashioned by famous French shoemakers of the time.
    Synonyms
    cobbler, bootmaker
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