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Cob

/kɒb/

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noun

  1. A male swan.
  2. A corncob.
  3. A round, often crusty roll or loaf of bread.
  4. A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe; also called cobb, rammed earth or pisé.
  5. A horse having a stout body and short legs.
  6. A gull, especially the black-backed gull (Larus marinus); also spelled cobb.
  7. 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.
  8. A Spanish coin formerly current in Ireland, worth about four shillings and sixpence.
  9. One who is eminent, great, large, or rich.
  10. A spider.
  11. A small fish, the miller's thumb.
  12. A large fish, especially the kabeljou (variant spelling of kob).
  13. The head of a herring.
  14. The top or head of anything.
  15. A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone.
  16. A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
  17. A cylinder with pins in it, encoding music to be played back mechanically by a barrel organ.
  18. A person of mixed black and white ancestry, especially a griffe; a mulatto.

verb

  1. To construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent.
  2. Of growing corn, to have the heads mature into corncobs.

noun

  1. The nut of the common hazel (Corylus avellana); hazelnut.
  2. A specific cultivated variety of hazelnut, also known as the Kentish cobnut.
  3. A game played by children with nuts.

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