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cob
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What does cob mean?
noun
- A corncob.
- The seed-bearing head of a plant.
- Clipping of cobnut.
More meanings (38)
noun
- A male swan.
- A gull, especially the black-backed gull (Larus marinus); also spelled cobb.
- A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, stone, or excrement.
- A round, often crusty roll or loaf of bread.
- A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe; also called cobb, rammed earth or pisé.
- A horse having a stout body and short legs.
- 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.
- A spider (cf. cobweb).
- A small fish, the miller's thumb.
- A large fish, especially the kabeljou (variant spelling of kob).
- A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
- Abbreviation of cobble.
- Alternative form of COB.
- Initialism of contingency operating base.
- Acronym of chief of boat.
- Initialism of close of business; the end of day on a business day.
- Initialism of centre of buoyancy
- Initialism of coordination of benefits
- Initialism of chairman of the board
- Initialism of chip on board (an LED module or integrated circuit bonded to a circuit board)
- Initialism of centre of buoyancy.
- (obsolete) One who is eminent, great, large, or rich.
- (obsolete) The head of a herring.
- (obsolete) A tower or small castle on top of a hill.
- (obsolete) A thresher.
- (historical) A cylinder with pins in it, encoding music to be played back mechanically by a barrel organ.
- (dated, historical) A person of mixed black and white ancestry, especially a griffe; a mulatto.
verb
- To construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent.
- To have the heads mature into corncobs.
- To remove the kernels from a corncob.
- To thresh.
- To break up ground with a hoe.
- To beat with a flat instrument; to paddle.
- 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.
- Of an animal: to nibble at their skin with their front teeth.
proper noun
- Clive's Original Band, band started by Clive Palmer after he left The Incredible String Band.
- Abbreviation of Cobourg.
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IPA pronunciation
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He ran excitedly out of the room, and the members of the Corn Cob fraternity grinned at each other.
THE old man had stuck his cob pipe in a pocket and filled his mouth with a chew of tobacco.
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Landry was born, and spent the first fifteen years of his life, on a rocky Connecticut farm not far from Cos Cob.
GENERAL APPEARANCE--A lady's little dog--intelligent, sprightly, robust, of compact appearance--reminding one of a cob, and captivating the attention by a quasi-human expression.
For months he had never gone near a town, and, requiring no vehicle, had never kept one, hiring the dairyman’s cob or gig if he rode or drove.