cobbler's wax

noun

1. a resin used for waxing thread

Example Sentences

He had a jack-knife in his pocket and a white alley and a piece of cobbler's wax and several yards of string.

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Dressing for Silk Wrappings.—Cobbler's wax dissolved in spirits of wine.

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But the Prince had used a stratagem, and had caused the steps to be covered with cobbler’s wax.

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Her body’s timber, and her face and hands are made out of cobbler’s wax.

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This curious mixture of cobbler’s wax, piety, vanity, and love of business, has left us in his autobiography, which he published under the title of his “Memoirs and Confessions,” his experience as a pie-boy! or seller of pies, thus:—

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