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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Hindi

kabāb

]

[Now more commonly spelled

kabob

A small piece of mutton or other meat roasted on a skewer; – so called in Turkey and Persia.

[Also spelled

kebab

kebob

, or

kabab

A leg of mutton roasted, stuffed with white herrings and sweet herbs.

Wright.

Verb.

[Now more commonly spelled

kabob

To roast, as a cabob.

Sir. T. Herbert.

cabob ‎(plural cabobs)

cabob ‎(third-person singular simple present cabobs, present participle cabobbing, simple past and past participle cabobbed)

Obsolete form of kebab.
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