Meaning of cob | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
2. Abbreviation of cobble.
   abbreviation, alt-of
3. cob (of corn)
4. Initialism of contingency operating base.
   US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
5. Clive's Original Band, band started by Clive Palmer after he left The Incredible String Band.
6. A corncob.
   countable, uncountable
7. Acronym of chief of boat.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
8. Abbreviation of Cobourg.
   abbreviation, alt-of
9. The seed-bearing head of a plant.
   countable, uncountable
10. Initialism of close of business; the end of day on a business day.
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
11. Clipping of cobnut.
    abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable
12. Coordination of Benefits
13. A male swan.
    countable, uncountable
14. Chairman of the Board
15. A gull, especially the black-backed gull (Larus marinus); also spelled cobb.
    East-Anglia, countable, uncountable
16. Chip on board (LED module or integrated circuit bonded to a circuit board)
17. A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, stone, or excrement.
    countable, uncountable
18. A round, often crusty roll or loaf of bread.
    Midlands, countable, uncountable
19. A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe; also called cobb, rammed earth or pisé.
    uncountable
20. A horse having a stout body and short legs.
    countable, uncountable
21. 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 eight—especially those which were crudely struck and irregularly shaped.
    countable, uncountable
22. One who is eminent, great, large, or rich.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
23. A spider (cf. cobweb).
    countable, uncountable
24. A small fish, the miller's thumb.
    countable, uncountable
25. A large fish, especially the kabeljou (variant spelling of kob).
    countable, uncountable
26. The head of a herring.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
27. A tower or small castle on top of a hill.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
28. A thresher.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
29. A cylinder with pins in it, encoding music to be played back mechanically by a barrel organ.
    countable, historical, uncountable
30. A person of mixed black and white ancestry, especially a griffe; a mulatto.
    countable, dated, historical, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The grains, each of which is about the bulk of the largest marrowfat pea, are placed all round a stalk, which goes up the middle, and this little stalk, to which the seeds adhere, is called the Corn Cob.”

“I passed some mills in which the grain, cob, and husk were all ground up together for the cattle and hogs….”

“Dad had placed a cob of corn on a stump for the jays, who bickered over it non-stop.”

“Examining the cob of the plants now in seed, I found them very full of fine seed.”

“The following analyses exhibit the composition of the ash of the grain and cob of three specimens, grown on different soils, in Lewis county, in 1847”

“About the end of October last, as an experiment, I selected seed from a Hickory King cob of above and planted twenty rows with from twenty to thirty seeds in each row, rows three feet apart.”

“One of the branches developed into a fully-formed cob, though it was thinner than the normal cob of the variety.”

“Thy plumbs are fair indeed, but void of taste; And those large thick-shell cobs the teeth will guast.”

“This kind of husk also protects the nut from birds, for titmice (Parus) have been observed to pass over filberts, and attack cobs and common nuts growing in the same orchard.”

“Pickled walnuts are excellent if you can get hold of green walnuts, but other green nuts – hazel, cob, filbert – can be used instead.”

“The nuts of the filbert are slightly longer and narrower than the cob.”

“In all common streams, and private waters, when cygnets are taken up, the owner of the cob must chuse the first cygnet, and the pen the next, and so in order….”

“The cob waddled out onto the island and looked in the nest.”

“The cob will defend the nest and the eggs.”

“Here is also the pica marina or seapye many sorts of Lari, seamewes & cobs.”

“On Saturday the 28th we saw a whale, two sea-wolves, and two penguins; in the afternoon there appeared great numbers of ospreys, and sea-cobs, and we met with some sea-grass, with long leaves.”

“We found here a species of cob, with a grey head, red beak and feet, very much resembling our larus ribibundus….”

“The Raven has a very ancient look about him, as if he could tell a lot if he thought proper, but the Cob looks weird and uncanny, as if he was continually thinking over the creatures that he had seen go down to Davy’s locker.”

“The cob was a cracknel or simnel made of fine flour.”

“…I sat there and broke the crust of my cob of bread.”

“I want to do a manual job / Even bake a lovely bread cob”

“The poore Cotager contenteth himſelfe with Cob for his wals, and Thatch for his couering….”

“The walls are of cob, the external ones being about 2 feet 8 inches thick, and rest on a stone foundation.”

“…cob falls outside the building code, so planners would want documentation of how the adobelike material performs.”

“Some tests have been carried out to evaluate the stabilizing effect on cob of modern materials such as gypsum, lime and cement (McPadden & Pavia 2016).”

“If he comes to you riding a cob…”

“He was well-mounted upon a sturdy chestnut cob, and had the graceful seat of an experienced horseman….”

“I reined in my impatient cob, and turned round.”

“Freize rode a strong cob and led a donkey laden with their belongings.”

“…he put his Hand in his Pocket and pull’d out ſome Gold, ſome Broadpieces and a Gold Cob….”

“They fancied, that he who sold a Stone of Wool for Two Cobs, callid 9s. when Cobs were raised would sell his Stone for a Cob and a half when called 9s.”

“As this sum was greater than ever Swift had been master of at any one time before, he pushed over, without reckoning them, a good number of the siver cobs (for it was all in that specie) to the honest sailor, and desired he would accept them for his trouble.”

“He then drew out a large leathern bag, and poured out the contents, which were ſilver cobs, upon the table.”

“Our fituation every day appears more alarming, there being a scarcity of almost every thing in the garrison — fire-wood a cob per hundred; flour five rials per pound; no fresh meat except an old cow, or worn-out ox, (only one perhaps killed in a month) which is sold at four and a half and five rials per pound; fowls twenty to twenty-four rials each; a goose ten dollars; a turkey twenty dollars; eggs a cob the dozen; and every other necessary in proporition.”

“Several of the artillery officers, the Welch fusileers, and a few navy officers, spent the evening at a tavern, well known by the name of Miss Loftus's; on payment of our reckoning, Captain Wilcox was deficient a cob (value about four shillings and ninepence) the payment of which, was offered to him by a Mr. Funston, a lieutenant fireworker;”

“It’s absolutely possible to find an affordable ($20-$35) low to average circulated Spanish silver cob dated around or before 1692, especially if you’re willing to settle for the smaller half real or one real cobs.”

“Cobs were usually irregularly shaped. They were a means to account for a specific amount of silver in a coin that could be used for commerce.”

“I ſaw fleſh bluddie toe ſlauer, / When the cob had maunged the gobets foule garbaged haulfe quick.”

“But I would not haue a few rich cobs to get into their clowches almoſt whole countries, ſo as the poore can haue no releefe by them.”

“There comes no good of greedie Cobs:”

“For fishing and shuting, he was the cob of all this country!”

“The first red herring that was broil’d in Adam and Eve’s kitchen, do I fetch my pedigree from, by the Harrot’s book. His Cob was my great-great-mighty-great grandfather.”

“…not a Scrap of him, but the Cobs of the two Herrings, the Fiſhermen had eaten, remained of him….”

“…he can come bragging hither with foure white Herrings (at’s taile) in blue Coates without roes in their bellies, but I may ſtarue ere he giue me ſo much as a cob.”

“Perhaps though in time one may make them to yield, But 'tis pretty'st Cob-Castle e'er I beheld.”

“There is a small cob on this hill by some supposed to have been a fort: if it was, it must have been a very small one; tho' I rather take it for a tumulus than an exploratory tower.”

“Who can make the worm a cob to thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and make the hills as chaff.”

“[…] but he does not say whether the nobleman is a mulatto or half-caste, or what advantage is to be derived from purchasing a cob belonging to "a dark-brown nobleman."”

“The young mother was darker than either of her parents, and might be taken for a cob (the offspring of a mulatto and a negro), but the baby looked to be almost pure Indian.”

“A cob is a reversion towards the negro, the child of one black parent with a mulatto, three-quarters black and hardly distinguishable. The mustee or quadroon, who is three-fourths white, and the costee or octoroon may be considered[…]”

“Such negro so offending shall receive fifteen cobbs or paddles for every such offence.”

“Habitats were sand, cobble (cob), sand with macrophytes (s\m) and muck with macrophytes (m\m).”

“List and short characteristics of sampling sites (br = bedrock, cob = cobble, gra = gravel, peb = pebble, sa = sand).”

“Surface substrate is expressed as the dominant particles (cob cobble, peb pebble, boul boulder)….”

“The NY office told the LA office to ensure the report was emailed by COB.”

“February 25, 1998 Exhibitor Deadline COB - Ad Copy Deadline COB - FINAL PROGRAM COPY DUE TO PROGRAM CHAIR (COB)”

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