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A drink made of wine (sherry), sugar, lemon, and ice. It is sipped up through a straw. (See Cobbler’s Punch.)
“This wonderful invention, sir, … is called cobbler,—Sherry cobbler, when you name it long; cobbler when you name it short.”—Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit, xvii.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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