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COB
cob
(noun) adult male swan
cob
(noun) stocky short-legged harness horse
hazelnut, filbert, cobnut, cob
(noun) nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
cob (countable and uncountable, plural cobs)
A male swan.
A corncob.
(Midlands) A round, often crusty roll or loaf of bread.
Clipping of cobnut.
(uncountable) A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe; also called cobb, rammed earth or pisƩ.
A horse having a stout body and short legs.
(East Anglia) A gull, especially the black-backed gull (Larus marinus); also spelled cobb.
Any of the gold and silver coins that were minted in the Spanish Empire and valued in reales or escudos, such as the piece of eightāespecially those which were crudely struck and irregularly shaped.
A Spanish coin formerly current in Ireland, worth about four shillings and sixpence.
(obsolete) One who is eminent, great, large, or rich.
A spider.
A small fish, the miller's thumb.
A large fish, especially the kabeljou (variant spelling of kob).
(obsolete) The head of a herring.
The top or head of anything.
A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone.
A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
(music, historical) A cylinder with pins in it, encoding music to be played back mechanically by a barrel organ.
(dated or historical) A person of mixed black and white ancestry, especially a griffe; a mulatto.
Coordinate terms
• (person of mixed race): see list in mulatto
Verb
cob (third-person singular simple present cobs, present participle cobbing, simple past and past participle cobbed)
To construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent.
Of growing corn, to have the heads mature into corncobs.
Etymology 2
Verb
cob (third-person singular simple present cobs, present participle cobbing, simple past and past participle cobbed)
To beat with a flat instrument; to paddle.
(Northern UK, possibly colloquial) To throw, chuck, lob.
To chip off unwanted pieces of stone, so as to form a desired shape or improve the quality of mineral ore.
Coordinate terms
• (mining): sledge, spall
Etymology 3
Noun
cob
Abbreviation of cobble.
Alternative form of COB
Anagrams
• BOC, BoC, CBO, OBC, OCB
Noun
COB (plural COBs)
(US, military) Initialism of contingency operating base.
(military) Acronym of chief of boat.
Close of Business, usually referring to a deadline for an office in another time zone.
Coordination of Benefits
Chairman of the Board
Chip on Board
Proper noun
COB
Clive's Original Band, band started by Clive Palmer after he left The Incredible String Band.
(sports) Abbreviation of Cobourg.
Anagrams
• BOC, BoC, CBO, OBC, OCB
Source: Wiktionary
Cob, n. Etym: [Cf. AS. cop, copp, head, top, D. kop, G. kopf, kuppe, LL. cuppa cup (cf. E. brainpan), and also W. cob tuft, spider, cop, copa, top, summit, cobio to thump. Cf. Cop top, Cup, n.]
1. The top or head of anything. [Obs.] W. Gifford.
2. A leader or chief; a conspicuous person, esp. a rich covetous person. [Obs.] All cobbing country chuffs, which make their bellies and their bags their god, are called rich cobs. Nash.
3. The axis on which the kernels of maize or indian corn grow. [U. S.]
4. (Zoƶl.)
Definition: A spider; perhaps from its shape; it being round like a head.
5. (Zoƶl.)
Definition: A young herring. B. Jonson.
6. (Zoƶl.)
Definition: A fish; -- also called miller's thumb.
7. A short-legged and stout horse, esp. one used for the saddle. [Eng.]
8. (Zoƶl.)
Definition: A sea mew or gull; esp., the black-backed gull (Larus marinus). [Written also cobb.]
9. A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone.
10. A cobnut; as, Kentish cobs. See Cobnut. [Eng.]
11. Clay mixed with straw. [Prov. Eng.] The poor cottager contenteth himself with cob for his walls, and thatch for his covering. R. Carew.
12. A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood. Wright.
13. A Spanish coin formerly current in Ireland, worth abiut 4s. 6d. [Obs.] Wright. Cob coal, coal in rounded lumps from the size of an egg to that of a football; -- called also cobbles. Grose.
– Cob loaf, a crusty, uneven loaf, rounded at top. Wright.
– Cob money, a kind of rudely coined gold and silver money of Spanish South America in the eighteenth century. The coins were of the weight of the piece of eight, or one of its aliquot parts.
Cob, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cobbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Cobbing.]
1. To strike [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
2. (Mining)
Definition: To break into small pieces, as ore, so as to sort out its better portions. Raymond.
3. (Naut.)
Definition: To punish by striking on the buttocks with a strap, a flat piece of wood, or the like.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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