cobbler shaker
From The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails
is a nineteenth-century term synonymous with cocktail shaker. See cocktail shaker. Although it first appears in America (in 1873), its use was chiefly British. In his widely influential 2002 Craft of the Cocktail, however, Dale DeGroff tethered the term to what was previously known as a “patent” or “3-piece” shaker: the type with a strainer and pour spout built into the top and a cap to seal it, patented by Charles J. Hauck of Brooklyn, New York, in 1884. See DeGroff, Dale. That usage was quickly adopted by others and is now general.
“A New Drink.” Leavenworth (KS) Times, July 16, 1873, 4.
By: David Wondrich
This definition is from The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails, edited by David Wondrich (Editor-in-Chief) and Noah Rothbaum (Associate Editor).