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n. an unofficial form of punishment among the crew involving blows to the buttocks from a piece of wood

adj. haughty; purse-proud

adj. Haughty; purse-proud. See cob, n., 2.

Making a vulgar display.

n. In mining, the operation of breaking ore for the purpose of sorting out the better parts.

n. Broken pieces of old bricks and bottoms of furnaces that have absorbed copper. Encyc. Brit., VI. 348, note.

"_ -- This consists simply in the separation of the ore by hand at the mines into different qualities, by women and boys with small hammers, the process being that known as "cobbing" in Cornwall."

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