cobbing noun3 •The manual separation of minerals in ore using a hammer.Wheeler provides greater detail on ore treatment, such as traditional cobbing and sorting methods. — 2018 •The production of cobs.In America, Canada, and Central Europe, for example, snow lies feet deep on the ground in the winter, and the summers are sufficiently hot to enable maize to be grown successfully for cobbing, — 1955 •an unofficial form of punishment among the crew or prisoners involving blows to the buttocks from a piece of wood or a handsaw. formscobbings
