Definitions for: Cob


[n] adult male swan
[n] white gull having a black back and wings
[n] stocky short-legged harness horse
[n] nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus



Webster (1913) Definition: Cob, n. [Cf. AS. cop, copp, head, top, D. kop, G. kopf,
kuppe, LL. cuppa cup (cf. E. brainpan), and also W. cob tuft,
spider, cop, copa, top, summit, cobio to thump. Cf. Cop
top, Cup, n.]
1. The top or head of anything. [Obs.] --W. Gifford.

2. A leader or chief; a conspicuous person, esp. a rich
covetous person. [Obs.]

All cobbing country chuffs, which make their bellies
and their bags their god, are called rich cobs.
--Nash.

3. The axis on which the kernels of maize or indian corn
grow. [U. S.]

4. (Zo["o]l.) A spider; perhaps from its shape; it being
round like a head.

5. (Zo["o]l.) A young herring. --B. Jonson.

6. (Zo["o]l.) A fish; -- also called miller's thumb.

7. A short-legged and stout horse, esp. one used for the
saddle. [Eng.]

8. (Zo["o]l.) A sea mew or gull; esp., the black-backed gull
(Larus marinus). [Written also cobb.]

9. A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large
size, as of coal, or stone.

10. A cobnut; as, Kentish cobs. See Cobnut. [Eng.]

11. Clay mixed with straw. [Prov. Eng.]

The poor cottager contenteth himself with cob for
his walls, and thatch for his covering. --R. Carew.

12. A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the
buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood. --Wright.

13. A Spanish coin formerly current in Ireland, worth abiut
4s. 6d. [Obs.] --Wright.

Cob coal, coal in rounded lumps from the size of an egg to
that of a football; -- called also cobbles. --Grose.

Cob loaf, a crusty, uneven loaf, rounded at top. --Wright.

Cob money, a kind of rudely coined gold and silver money of
Spanish South America in the eighteenth century. The coins
were of the weight of the piece of eight, or one of its
aliquot parts.


Cob, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cobbed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Cobbing.]
1. To strike [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.

2. (Mining) To break into small pieces, as ore, so as to sort
out its better portions. --Raymond.

3. (Naut.) To punish by striking on the buttocks with a
strap, a flat piece of wood, or the like.

Synonyms: black-backed gull, cobnut, filbert, great black-backed gull, hazelnut, Larus marinus

See Also: edible nut, genus Larus, gull, harness horse, hazel, hazelnut tree, Larus, sea gull, seagull, swan

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