Definitions for cordwainer

cordwainer cord·wain·er

Spelling: [kawrd-wey-ner]
IPA: /ˈkɔrd weɪ nər/

Cordwainer is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 695 anagrams from letters in cordwainer (acdeinorrw).

Definitions for cordwainer

noun

  1. a person who makes shoes from cordovan leather.
  2. shoemaker; cobbler.

Origin of cordwainer

1150-1200; Middle English cordewaner Old French cordewan(i)er. See cordwain, -er2

Examples for cordwainer

cordwainer was the old name for "shoemaker," and is still kept in the names of shoemakers' guilds and societies.

Tanners who make a notorious default in leather which is found by a cordwainer shall make a forfeiture.

Edmund was sent to Concord and became a cordwainer or shoemaker.

I shall not wonder if I come to be cousin to a cordwainer's 'prentice yet!

And every cordwainer that shod any man or woman on the Sunday, to pay thirty shillings.

An apprentice of a cordwainer in the town ran away in 1764, or, as it was worded on the police notice, "did elope from service."

"Both equally necessary members of the body corporate," said Henry, whose father had been a cordwainer.

It is true that the family was a branch of the Oddi, and the lover only a cordwainer.

I was an apprentice to a cordwainer, but my indentures were given up before I left England, sir.

The message for cordwainer went out of his head, though he went that way on purpose.

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