Cob

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A corncob: corn on the cob.
  • n. A male swan.
  • n. A thickset, stocky, short-legged horse.
  • n. A small lump or mass, as of coal.
  • n. A mixture of clay and straw used as a building material.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To beat with a flat instrument; to paddle.
  • v. To throw, chuck, lob.
  • v. To chip off unwanted pieces of stone, so as to form a desired shape or improve the quality of mineral ore.
  • abbreviation. Abbreviation of cobble.
  • initialism. Alternative form of COB.
  • n. A male swan.
  • n. A corncob.
  • n. A round, often crusty roll or loaf of bread.
  • n. Short for cobnut.
  • n. A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe; also called cobb, rammed earth or pisé.
  • n. A horse having a stout body and short legs.
  • n. A gull.
  • n. 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.
  • n. One who is eminent, great, large, or rich.
  • n. The head of a herring.
  • v. this sense?) To construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The top or head of anything.
  • n. A leader or chief; a conspicuous person, esp. a rich covetous person.
  • n. The axis on which the kernels of maize or indian corn grow.
  • n. A spider; perhaps from its shape; it being round like a head.
  • n. A young herring.
  • n. A fish; -- also called miller's thumb.
  • n. A short-legged and stout horse, esp. one used for the saddle.
  • n. A sea mew or gull; esp., the black-backed gull (Larus marinus).
  • n. A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone.
  • n. A cobnut. See Cobnut.
  • n. Clay mixed with straw.
  • n. A punishment consisting of blows inflictod on tho buttocas with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
  • n. A Spanish coin formerly current in Ireland, worth abiut 4s. 6d.
  • v. To strike.
  • v. To break into small pieces, as ore, so as to sort out its better portions.
  • v. To punish by striking on the buttocks with a strap, a flat piece of wood, or the like.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The top; the head; the poll.
  • n. A head man; a prominent or chief person; a leader or chief.
  • n. A wealthy man; especially, one who makes a vulgar use or display of his wealth; a rich and vulgar man; a chuff.
  • n. A roundish lump.
  • n. A small haystack; a haycock.
  • n. An ear of wheat. See cob-poke.
  • n. The cylindrical shoot or receptacle, in the form of a spike, on which the grains of maize or Indian corn grow in rows; a corn-cob (which see).
  • n. A young herring.
  • n. A fish, the bullhead or miller's-thumb.
  • n. The common clam, Mya arenaria.
  • n. A Spanish dollar: a name formerly in use in Ireland, and still at Gibraltar.
  • n. A compost of puddled clay and straw, or of straw, lime, and earth.
  • n. In coal-mining, a small solid pillar of coal left in a waste as a support for the roof.
  • n. Clover-seed.
  • n. A strong, thick-set, pony-built horse, capable of carrying a heavy weight at a good pace. Also cob-horse.
  • n. A kind of wicker basket made to be carried on the arm; specifically, one used for carrying seed while sowing.
  • n. The great black-backed gull, Larus marinus. Also spelled cobb.
  • n. A sort of short breakwater.
  • To strike; knock; beat on the buttocks with the knee, or with a board or strap.
  • In mining, to break (ore) into small fragments with a hammer, in the process of dressing it for the smelter.
  • To excel; outdo; beat.
  • To throw.
  • To fight.
  • Also spelled cobb.
  • n. A blow on the buttocks with the knee, or with a strap or board; a punishment consisting of such blows. Also spelled cobb.
  • n. . In pharm., a cylindrical mass of crystals of lactose (sugar of milk) formed upon a stick or cord.
  • n. Tn horticulture, a kind of filbert characterized by a short rounded nut borne in short open husks. The longer nuts, in long husks, are known as true filberts.
  • n. Any of the larger gulls, but more particularly the black-backed gull, Larus marinus.
  • n. In the United States the standard for a cob is some what larger than in England, a typical cob standing about 15 hands high and weighing from 1,000 to 1,050 pounds. A cob is smoother and more compact than a coacher and has shorter legs.
  • n. Same as cobswan.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. adult male swan
  • n. white gull having a black back and wings
  • n. nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus
  • n. stocky short-legged harness horse
  • Verb Form
    cobbed    cobbing    cobs   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    swan    gull    seagull    sea gull    edible nut    harness horse   
    Variant
    Cobb    cobnut   
    Form
    cobbed    cobbing   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    spider    strike   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bob    Cobb    Job    Punjab    Rob    blob    bob    cobb    dob    glob   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    gelding    stallion    mare    meerschaum    pony