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What does cob mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word cob? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A male swan.
  2. A corncob.
  3. (English Midlands) A round, often crusty roll or loaf of bread.
  4. Clipping of cobnut.
  5. (uncountable) A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe; also called cobb, rammed earth or pisé.
  6. A horse having a stout body and short legs.
  7. (East Anglia) A gull, especially the black-backed gull (Larus marinus); also spelled cobb.
  8. 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.
  9. A Spanish coin formerly current in Ireland, worth about four shillings and sixpence.
  10. (obsolete) One who is eminent, great, large, or rich.
  11. A spider.
  12. A small fish, the miller's thumb.
  13. A large fish, especially the kabeljou (variant spelling of kob).
  14. (obsolete) The head of a herring.
  15. The top or head of anything.
  16. A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone.
  17. A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
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.
Verb
  1. To beat with a flat instrument; to paddle.
  2. (Northern UK, possibly colloquial) To throw, chuck, lob.
  3. To chip off unwanted pieces of stone, so as to form a desired shape or improve the quality of mineral ore.
Abbreviation
  1. Abbreviation of cobble.
Initialism
  1. Alternative form of COB
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