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Cob

noun
/kɒb/
Word Frequency: 0.6

Definitions

1.nounA male swan.
2.nounA corncob.
3.nounA round, often crusty roll or loaf of bread.
4.nounA building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe; also called cobb, rammed earth or pisé.
5.nounA horse having a stout body and short legs.
6.nounA gull, especially the black-backed gull (Larus marinus); also spelled cobb.
7.nounAny 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.nounA Spanish coin formerly current in Ireland, worth about four shillings and sixpence.
9.nounOne who is eminent, great, large, or rich.
10.nounA spider.
11.nounA small fish, the miller's thumb.
12.nounA large fish, especially the kabeljou (variant spelling of kob).
13.nounThe head of a herring.
14.nounThe top or head of anything.
15.nounA lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone.
16.nounA punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
17.nounA cylinder with pins in it, encoding music to be played back mechanically by a barrel organ.
18.nounA person of mixed black and white ancestry, especially a griffe; a mulatto.
19.verbTo construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent.
20.verbOf growing corn, to have the heads mature into corncobs.
21.nounThe nut of the common hazel (Corylus avellana); hazelnut.
22.nounA specific cultivated variety of hazelnut, also known as the Kentish cobnut.
23.nounA game played by children with nuts.

Synonyms

filberthazelnutcobnutgreat black-backed gullblack-backed gulllarus marinuscosspikespurepibocsec

Rhymes With

bobjobthrobdaubsquabsobhobnobknob
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