Dictionary entry

Shoemaker

Pronunciation: /ˈʃuːmeɪkə/

Pronunciation

/ˈʃuːmeɪkə/

Myanmar Meaning

ဖိနပ်လုပ်သူ၊ ချုပ်သူ။

Definition

shoemaker /'ʃu:meÇkǝ(r)/ n ဖိနပ္လုပ္သူ၊ ခ်ဳပ္သူ။ shoemaking n [U]

Examples

  1. ‘Although the young town had its own blacksmiths
  2. wheelwrights
  3. shoemakers and ropemakers
  4. it never developed its own business centre.’
  5. ‘Craftsmen plied their trades as cloth makers
  6. shoemakers
  7. tailors
  8. carpenters
  9. butchers and malt makers while weekly or monthly markets provided an outlet for surplus agricultural produce.’
  10. ‘The hats were the size of a coin
  11. with each little shoe fashioned by famous French shoemakers of the time.’
  12. ‘At the bottom of the scale were trades serving local markets
  13. such as carpenters
  14. masons
  15. bakers
  16. or shoemakers.’
  17. ‘It was then that shoemakers began creating individual shoes for the left and right feet.’
  18. ‘The balls were probably made by a souter (a shoemaker or cobbler)
  19. whose stitching skills were essential to producing a good ball.’
  20. ‘Within a country when a baker imports shoes from a shoemaker he pays with the bread he produced.’
  21. ‘Spanish shoemakers are complaining that Chinese shoes take away almost all their business
  22. by undercutting their prices
  23. party through illegal means.’
  24. ‘Musicians
  25. like shoemakers
  26. construction workers and teachers
  27. are so accustomed to being underpaid that many people consider it counter-productive to even think of paying them fairly.’
  28. ‘It had two butchers
  29. two coopers
  30. two weavers
  31. a shoemaker
  32. blacksmith
  33. a cornmill
  34. a pound
  35. a lime kiln and
  36. of course
  37. a pub.’
  38. ‘The membership was composed not as yet of the very poor but of disgruntled students and schoolteachers
  39. and the usual artisan élite of printers
  40. builders
  41. and shoemakers.’
  42. ‘Also
  43. dancers with mismatched feet can - and often do - fine-tune the size of each shoe with a special order to their shoemaker.’
  44. ‘But then we stepped out at Pingyao
  45. a perfect walled city where the little wooden shops have red lanterns hanging from them
  46. and shoemakers sit making satin slippers until 10 or 11 at night.’
  47. ‘The next largest industrial group were in the clothing trades
  48. most conspicuously tailors and shoemakers.’
  49. ‘The German shoemaker began selling sneakers with three stripes along the side more than 50 years ago
  50. and expanded into clothing around 1967.’
  51. ‘Quality shoemakers know this and offer a wide range of comfortable footwear options.’
  52. ‘He is drawn to the lanes of the city day after day
  53. his camera capturing images of locksmiths
  54. barbers
  55. tailors and residents going about their daily affairs.’
  56. ‘The designs are beautiful drawings
  57. but the costume builders and shoemakers must have had to make many adjustments for a dancer's body.’
  58. ‘I just picked up my new sandals from the shoemaker (a little hut by the side of the road