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Webster 1913 Edition
Cob
Cob
,Noun.
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.
(Zool.)
A spider; perhaps from its shape; it being round like a head.
5.
(Zool.)
A young herring.
B. Jonson.
6.
(Zool.)
A fish; – also called
miller’s thumb
. 7.
A short-legged and stout horse, esp. one used for the saddle.
[Eng.]
8.
(Zool.)
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.
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 inflictod on tho buttocas 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
,Verb.
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Cob
COB
, n.1.
The top or head; a covetous wretch; a foreign coin.2.
In America, the receptacle of the maiz, or American corn; a shoot in form of a pin or spike, on which grows the corn in rows. This receptacle, with the corn, is called the ear.3.
A sea-fowl, the sea-cob.4.
A ball or pellet for feeding fowls.5.
In some parts of England, a spider. Old Dutch, kop or koppe, a spider, retained in koppespin, spinnekop, a spider.6.
A horse not castrated; a strong poney.COB
,Verb.
T.