cob
IPA: kˈɑb
noun
- A corncob.
- The seed-bearing head of a plant.
- A male swan.
- (East Anglia) 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, or stone.
- (Midlands) A round, often crusty roll or loaf of bread.
- (uncountable) 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.
- (obsolete) One who is eminent, great, large, or rich.
- A spider (cf. cobweb).
- A small fish, the miller's thumb.
- A large fish, especially the kabeljou (variant spelling of kob).
- (obsolete) The head of a herring.
- (obsolete) A tower or small castle on top of a hill.
- (obsolete) A thresher.
- (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.
- A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
- Coordination of Benefits
- Chairman of the Board
- Chip on Board
- Clive's Original Band, band started by Clive Palmer after he left The Incredible String Band.
- Clipping of cobnut. [A nut of a common hazel (Corylus avellana); hazelnut.]
- Abbreviation of cobble. [A cobblestone.]
- Alternative form of COB [Coordination of Benefits]
- (US, military) Initialism of contingency operating base.
- (military) Acronym of chief of boat.
- Initialism of close of business; the end of day on a business day. [The end of a business day.]
- (sports) Abbreviation of Cobourg. [A town, the county seat of Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada, situated on Lake Ontario.]
verb
- 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.
- To remove the kernels from a corncob.
- To thresh.
- To break up ground with a hoe.
- To beat with a flat instrument; to paddle.
- (Northern UK, 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.
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Examples of "cob" in Sentences
- Mr. GILL: So the plant reduces in height, but at the same time the cob is bigger, the stem is thicker and stronger.
- This may be a really stupid question, but I have always wondered why corn on the cob is available from stands here throughout the year?
- The cottages are built neither of brick nor of wood, but of some form of plaster, which they call cob, which is strong and smooth so long as no water comes near it.
- In the Querétaro town of Cadereyta de Montes, near Bernal, a men on horseback stop at a convenience store to stock up on bottles of water and then buy fresh corn on the cob from a street vendor.
- Grace said ... first of all, lime juice and corn on the cob is a happy match indeed. secondly, i don't like shrimp AT ALL, but that salsa is so appealing to me that i'm almost excited to try the whole dish!
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