Meaning of corb | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A basket, for example one used in coal mines, etc.
   archaic
2. a corbel (ornament in a building).
   obsolete
3. A brown meagre (Sciaena umbra)

Examples

“He said no more, but signed to me to lift a heavy wooden corb with an iron loop across it, and sunk in a little pit of earth, a yard or so from the mouth of the shaft. I raised it, and by his direction dropped it into the throat of the shaft, where it hung and shook from a great cross-beam laid at the level of the earth. A very stout thick rope was fastened to the handle of the corb, and ran across a pulley hanging from the centre of the beam, and thence out of sight in the nether places.”

“I[…] carried my corb of fagots home on my back, while my two youngsters had each their bundle on their little shoulders too”

“Some bore amain The death-vat, some the corbs of hallowed grain”

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