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shoemaker (n.)
late 14c. (mid-14c. as a surname), from shoe (n.) + maker. Old English used scohere, scoh-wyrhta for "shoemaker."
[T]he business of the Anglo-Saxon shoewright was much more extensive than that of the modern shoemaker ; in fact, all articles made of leather came within his province. Among these were leathern flasks, and various other vessels, as well as leather bags and purses. [Thomas Wright, "Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies," 1884]
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Definitions of shoemaker
Dictionary entries near shoemaker
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