cobble
Rounded paving stone
Cobble works as both noun and verb around the idea of rough assembly.
A cobble is a rounded stone, larger than a pebble but smaller than a boulder, historically used for paving streets—hence cobblestone and cobbled streets.
To cobble is to pave with such stones, or to make or mend shoes.
More commonly now, to cobble together something is to assemble it roughly or hastily from available materials: We cobbled together a proposal overnight.
Having no sharp angles
- riverLarge flowing watercourse
- beachSandy waterside margin
- shoreLand bordering water
- smoothWithout roughness or difficulty
pebble · waterworn · streambed · glacial · natural · erosion · tumbled · collected
Badger's underground home
- pavementHard road covering
- streetPublic urban roadway
- alleyNarrow way between buildings
- laneDesignated travel strip
courtyard · plaza · square · flagstone · granite · basalt · quarry · mosaic
In union or proximity
- makeshiftTemporary, improvised substitute
- patchworkFabric scraps sewn together
- assembleJoin parts together
- jury-rigImprovise temporary repair
hodgepodge · improvised · thrown-together · rough · hasty · ad-hoc · scrappy · pieced
rounded
Having no sharp angles
smooth · pebble · waterworn · streambed · glacial · natural · erosion · tumbled · collected · decorative
sett
Badger's underground home
lane · courtyard · plaza · square · flagstone · granite · basalt · quarry · mosaic · pattern
together
In union or proximity
- makeshiftTemporary, improvised substitute
- patchworkFabric scraps sewn together
- assembleJoin parts together
jury-rig · hodgepodge · improvised · thrown-together · rough · hasty · ad-hoc · scrappy · pieced · botched
sole
Foot's bottom surface
leather · resole · repair · stitch · nail · peg · welt · bench · shop · bootmaker
- rocksbasalt, granite, sandstone, marble, shale
- earth materialsrock, soil, mud, clay, mineral
- rocky shoretide pool, boulder, cliff, barnacle, mussel
- stonesboulder, pebble, flagstone, slab, river stone
- -le/-er verbsbabble, bubble, bumble, burble, crackle
- improviseimprovise, make do, wing it, ad-lib, jury-rig
cobbleengineer
Technical design professional
design · plan · architect · systematize · prefabricate
- peach cobblerBaked fruit under crust
- cobble togetherAssemble hastily from whatever's available
- cobbled togetherAssembled hastily from disparate parts
- apple cobblerFruit dessert with biscuit topping
- fruit cobblerBaked dessert with topping
- cobblestone streetsRoads surfaced with rounded rocks
cobbler, cobblestone, cobbled, cobbles, cobbling, cobblers, cobble together, cobblestones, cobblestoned