shoemaker

¹

[ shoo-mey-ker ]

noun

1. a person who makes or mends shoes.

Shoemaker

²

[ shoo-mey-ker ]

noun

1. William Lee Willie, 1931–2003, U.S. jockey.

shoemaker

/ ˈʃuːˌmeɪkə /

noun

1. a person who makes or repairs shoes or boots

Derived Forms

• ˈshoeˌmaking, noun

Other Words From

• shoemaking noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of shoemaker¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; shoe, maker

Example Sentences

The hotel’s grounds will include a well-known feature from the original racetrack, the life-size bronze sculpture of jockey Billy Shoemaker riding famed racehorse Swaps at full gallop that greeted bettors for decades.

From Los Angeles Times

Swaps and Shoemaker won the 1955 Kentucky Derby, and the thoroughbred also captured the Hollywood Gold Cup, Hollywood Park’s signature race.

From Los Angeles Times

In 1991, when an impaired Willie Shoemaker was paralyzed in a car accident that nearly took the life of the world-renowned jockey, Downey wrote:

From Los Angeles Times

Jac Venza, a shoemaker’s son who almost single-handedly delivered to the proverbial “vast wasteland” that was American television in the 1960s and ’70s an oasis of cultural programming, including “Great Performances,” “American Masters” and “Live From Lincoln Center,” died on Tuesday at his home in Lyme, Conn. He was 97.

From New York Times

Salvatore Rubino, also known as “Sal the Shoemaker,” admitted in court to running card games and operating illegal gambling machines inside his former shoe repair business and to kicking profits to the Genovese crime family.

From Seattle Times