[f. COBBLE v.1 + -ING2.] That cobbles (see the vb.); bungling, clumsy.
1575. Fulke, Confut. Doctr. Purgatory (1577), 250. The cobling counterfecter of those epistles.
1587. Harrison, England, II. i. (1877), I. 34. When such cookes & cobling shifters shall be remooued.
1647. Ward, Simp. Cobler, 32. My Cobling hand.
