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Definition: COBBING |
COBBINGAdjective1. Haughty; purse-proud. See Cob, n., 2. Personal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Cob |
"COBBING" is a common misspelling or typo for: bobbing, cobbling, combing, cubing, fobbing, lobbing, mobbing, robbing, sobbing. |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A. The separation, generally with a handheld hammer, of worthless minerals from desired minerals in a mining operation; e.g., quartz from feldspar. Syn:hand cobbing; piking b. Rubble, such as from furnace bottoms, impregnated with coppe e.g., quartz from feldspar. Syn:hand cobbing; piking. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | COB, or COBBING. A punishment used by the seamen for petty offences, or irregularities, among themselves: it consists in bastonadoing the offender on the posteriors with a cobbing stick, or pipe staff; the number usually inflicted is a dozen. At the first. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: COBBING |
| English words defined with "COBBING": Dradge. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "COBBING": cobbing board ♦ SCHOOL BUTTER. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cobbing ray | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "COBBING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
French | pavage. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | obbingcay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-c-g-i-n-o" | |
-1 letter: gibbon. | |
-2 letters: bingo, boing, coign, incog. | |
-3 letters: bong, cion, cobb, coin, coni, icon. | |
-4 letters: bib, big, bin, bio, bob, bog, cig, cob, cog, con, gib, gin, gob, ion, nib, nob, nog, obi. | |
-5 letters: bi, bo, go, in, no, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-b-c-g-i-n-o" | |
+1 letter: cobbling. | |
+3 letters: clobbering, cobwebbing, confabbing. | |
+5 letters: beachcombing, blockbusting, stockjobbing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 4F 42 42 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. --- -... -... .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01001111 01000010 01000010 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C O B B I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 004F 0042 0042 0049 004E 0047 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37493636434841 |
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