cob

noun21

1. •
   A corncob.

   • I passed some mills in which the grain, cob, and husk were all ground up together for the cattle and hogs…. — 1849
2. •
   The seed-bearing head of a plant.

   • Examining the cob of the plants now in seed, I found them very full of fine seed. — 1807
3. •
   A horse having a stout body and short legs.

   • If he comes to you riding a cob… — 1828
4. •
   A male swan.

   • In all common streams, and private waters, when cygnets are taken up, the owner of the cob must chuse the first cygnet, and the pen the next, and so in order…. — 1664
5. •
   A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe; also called cobb, rammed earth or pisé.

   • The poore Cotager contenteth himselfe with Cob for his wals, and Thatch for his couering…. — 1602
6. •
   A round, often crusty roll or loaf of bread.

   • The cob was a cracknel or simnel made of fine flour. — 1877
7. •
   A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, stone, or excrement.
8. •
   Clipping of cobnut.

   • Thy plumbs are fair indeed, but void of taste; And those large thick-shell cobs the teeth will guast. — 1782
9. •
   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.

   • …he put his Hand in his Pocket and pull’d out some Gold, some Broadpieces and a Gold Cob…. — 1701
10. •
    (old-fashioned, historical) A person of mixed black and white ancestry, especially a griffe; a mulatto.

    • […] but he does not say whether the nobleman is a mulatto or half-caste, or what advantage is to be derived from purchasing a cob belonging to "a dark-brown nobleman." — 1885
11. •
    (historical) A cylinder with pins in it, encoding music to be played back mechanically by a barrel organ.
12. •
    A gull, especially the black-backed gull (Larus marinus); also spelled cobb.

    • Here is also the pica marina or seapye many sorts of Lari, seamewes & cobs. — 1668
13. •
    A spider (cf. cobweb).
14. •
    A large fish, especially the kabeljou (variant spelling of kob).
15. •
    A small fish, the miller's thumb.
16. •
    A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.

    • Such negro so offending shall receive fifteen cobbs or paddles for every such offence. — 1828
17. •
    Abbreviation of cobble.

    • Habitats were sand, cobble (cob), sand with macrophytes (s\m) and muck with macrophytes (m\m). — 1994
18. •
    (no longer used) One who is eminent, great, large, or rich.

    • I saw flesh bluddie toe slauer, / When the cob had maunged the gobets foule garbaged haulfe quick. — 1583
19. •
    (no longer used) A tower or small castle on top of a hill.

    • Perhaps though in time one may make them to yield, But 'tis pretty'st Cob-Castle e'er I beheld. — 1689
20. •
    (no longer used) The head of a herring.

    • The first red herring that was broil’d in Adam and Eve’s kitchen, do I fetch my pedigree from, by the Harrot’s book. His Cob was my great-great-mighty-great grandfather. — 1598
21. •
    (no longer used) A thresher.

    • Who can make the worm a cob to thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and make the hills as chaff. — 1667

verb9

1. •
   To construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent.

   • Windows and other details can be cobbed into place, and niches and reliefs are easy to create. — 2004
2. •
   To remove the kernels from a corncob.

   • Darning socks, knitting, fancy work, cooking, housework, cobbing corn. — 1969
3. •
   To thresh.

   • The price paid for cobbing (separating the seed from the straw) and drawing the seed of red and white clover is from 3s. 6d. to 4s. 6d. the bushel of 5 stone of seed. — 1847
4. •
   (informal) To throw, chuck, lob.

   • Well, sir, I’m sure I’d be rid of it fast enough if I could naut cob it away like a stoan. — 1862
5. •
   To have the heads mature into corncobs.

   • Ninety Day came to maturity very early and cobbed plentifully, but the grain proved shallow and lacking in meal. — 1907
6. •
   To beat with a flat instrument; to paddle.

   • […] he pulled off his hat, and said he was going to cob him for breaking the rules and laws of the ship’s company. — 1803
7. •
   To chip off unwanted pieces of stone, so as to form a desired shape or improve the quality of mineral ore.

   • A shade or shelter from the weather, under which the Cobbers cob the Ore. — 1778
8. •
   To break up ground with a hoe.
9. •
   Of an animal: to nibble at their skin with their front teeth.

noun7

1. •
   Initialism of close of business; the end of day on a business day.

   • The NY office told the LA office to ensure the report was emailed by COB.
2. •
   Initialism of chairman of the board
3. •
   Initialism of chip on board (an LED module or integrated circuit bonded to a circuit board)
4. •
   Initialism of centre of buoyancy
5. •
   Initialism of coordination of benefits
6. •
   (US) Initialism of contingency operating base.
7. •
   Acronym of chief of boat.

noun1

1. •
   Initialism of centre of buoyancy.