Cob

Definition: Cob

Cob

Noun

1. Nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus.

2. Stocky short-legged harness horse.

3. White gull having a black back and wings.

4. Adult male swan.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cob" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references)

Building & Civil Engineering

Literature

Mining

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

COB

COB

COB

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Cob

Carrier

Beast, beast of burden, cattle, horse, nag, palfrey, Arab, blood horse, thoroughbred, galloway, charger, courser, racer, hunter, jument, pony, filly, colt, foal, barb, roan, jade, hack, bidet, pad, cob, punch, roadster, goer; racehorse, pack horse, draft horse, cart horse, dray horse, post horse; ketch; Shetland pony, shelty, sheltie; garran, garron; jennet, genet, bayard, mare, stallion, gelding; bronco, broncho, cayuse; creature, critter; cow pony, mustang, Narraganset, waler; stud.

Punishment

Strike; deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite; slap, slap the face; smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge, buffet; thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor; lace, lace one's jacket; dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue; beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly; give a black eye.

Crosswords: Cob

French (cob), Welsh (cloak, coat).

Pink On the Cob (1969)

Midnight Cob (1992)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Corn-On and Off the Cob (Rookie Read-About Science) (reference)

• Multichip Modules and Related Technologies: McM, Tab, and Cob Design (Electronic Packaging and Interconnection Series) (reference)

• Newbury House Cob Eng Lrn Di (reference)

• Readings for Cob 300: An Integrated View of Business (reference)

• The Battle of Sir Cob and Sir Filbert (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• La Virgen De La Cardad Del Cob [IMPORT] (reference)

• Unikorn on the Cob [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The first step in the making of Kenyon's johnnycake flour. Removing the corn from the cob. Usquepaugh, Rhode Island. Credit: Library of Congress.

Irving Hartley, residence on Cat Rock Rd., Cos Cob, Connecticut. Living room fireplace. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Economic History

Bolivia

Nearly all unions belong to the Confederation of Bolivian Workers (COB), a militant organization whose calls for strikes often go unheeded. (references)

France

Based on current regulations an application to the COB must include French translations of three years of financial statements and an auditor's report on these statements. (references)

France

According to Bank of France estimates, foreigners held approximately 37.5% of the capital of publicly traded French companies at the end of 2000. For a foreign company incorporated in an OECD country to be listed on the Euronext stock exchange, it must be sponsored by a French bank or broker and prepare a French language prospectus to get a permit from the "Commissions des Operations de Bourse (COB)" (the French equivalent to the SEC). (references)

Political Economy

BOLIVIA

The COB contends that it still is the exclusive representative of all Bolivian workers. (references)

BOLIVIA

The past two governments attempted to revise the Labor Code but desisted in the face of COB opposition. (references)

BOLIVIA

The COB became an affiliate of the formerly Soviet-dominated World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) in 1988. (references)

Worker Rights

Bolivia

The COB is an affiliate of the communist, formerly Soviet-dominated, World Federation of Trade Unions. (references)

Bolivia

The practice was for the COB and the Government to negotiate a global agreement on salaries, minimum wages, and other work conditions each year. (references)

Bolivia

The Labor Code was written in a period in which the COB, which purports to represent all worker groups and interests, had quasi-governmental status and the exclusive authority to negotiate with state-owned enterprises. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "cob": cob coal ♦ Cob loaf ♦ Cob money ♦ cob swan ♦ cob wall ♦ corn cob ♦ corn on the cob ♦ cos Cob ♦ sea cob. Additional references.

Beginning with "cob": cob-bers, cob-called, cob-nut, cob-shaped, cob-webbed, cob-webs.

Ending with "cob": corn-on-the-cob.

Albanian

rrah (aim, assess, beat, beat up, castigate, flail, flap, flicker, give a good hiding, give in, lambaste, larrup, lather, lay into, lick, mill, Pat, thrash, thresh, trounce, wallop, whop), mjellmë mashkull (cob swan), kalli (ear, Spike), kalë këmbëshkurtër. (various references)

Arabic 

‏كوز الذره (corncob), ‏قولحة الذرة, ‏قطعة مستديرة من, ‏قطعة خبز (slice), ‏زعيم (bell wether, boss, captain, chief, elder, head, leader, pacemaker, primate, ruler), ‏ذكر الاوز, ‏جواد قوي قصير القوائم, ‏رجل ذو شأن. (various references)

Bulgarian 

самун (loaf), хвърлям (aim, broadcast, cast, dart, dash, draw, fling, fling down, flung, heave, hurl, hurtle, jerk, launch, pass, pitch, plunk, pounce, precipitate, project, send, shadow, shed, shoot, shoot out, sling, sock, throw, throw off, throw out, toss, toss about, whop), царевичен кочан (corn cob), къс (brief, fraction, fragment, fritter, jimp, length, little, morsel, patch, piece, portion, scrimpy, short, skimpy, slip, slipping), кей (embankment, front, jetty, landing stage, levee, moorage, pier, quay, slip, wharf), кирпич (loam), голяма черногърба чайка, вид едър лешник (cobnut), нисък набит як кон за язда, лебед мъжкар (cobswan), буца (bunch, chunk, dollop, gibbosity, gob, hunch, intumescence, junk, knob, lump, nub, protuberance, tuber), парче (bar, bit, cake, catch, cut, cutting, dollop, fragment, lump, patch, piece, portion, scrap, section, slice, slip, slipping, snatch, splint, splinter), дробя руда. (various references)

Chinese 

玉米�'. (various references)

Czech

tìžký hřebec. (various references)

Danish

majskrybbe (corn crib, crib, wire cob rack), krybbe (corn crib, crib, feed plan, feeder, manger, trough, wire cob rack), aftaerskede majskolber (corn cob, maize cob), aftærskede majskolber (corn cob, maize cob). (various references)

Dutch

maisspil (corn cob, maize cob), maiskolfspil (corn cob, maize cob), maïskrib (corn crib, crib, wire cob rack). (various references)

Farsi 

چوب ذرت (Corncob), توده (Aggregate, Barrow, Bloc, Block, Bulk, Clot, Congeries, Gross, Heap, Hill, Lump, Mass, Midden, Oodles, Pile, Pyre, Rick, Riffraff, Shock, Stack, Volume, Wad), ادم مهم . (various references)

Finnish

maissintähkä (corn cob, maize cob). (various references)

French

cygne, cob, chef, rafle, pisé (cobwork, rammed-earth construction), miche, leader, bousillé, épi. (various references)

German

männlicher schwan. (various references)

Greek 

κώνοσ αραβοσίτου, καλαμπόκι (corn), ιππάριο (nag, pony), αρσενικόσ κύκνοσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

לב� ת פחם (briquette), סוס רכיב�" קצר ר�'לים. (various references)

Hungarian

sirály (gull, mew, sea gull, sea mew, seagull), kukoricacsõ (corn cob), kézikalapáccsal fejt. (various references)

Italian

cigno maschio, pannocchia (corncob, ear, panicle). (various references)

Manx

doib. (various references)

Papago

kuhmikud (corn cob). (various references)

Pig Latin

obcay.(various references)

Portuguese

conquistar (acquire, attach, attract, beat, conquer, subdue, subjugate, win), castigar (amerce, beat, birch, castigate, chasten, discipline, flog, inflict, penance, pull about, punish, smite, swinge, thrash, visit, whack, whip), cisne-macho (cob-swan), agitar (abet, agitate, alarm, beat, brandish, bustle, churn, commove, convulse, dimple, discompose, excite, faze, ferment, flap, flick, fling, flounce, flourish, flurry, flutter, fret, incite, jar, jingle, jounce, moot, perturb, pulsate, quiver, ripple, shake, stir, stir up, sway, swing, switch, toss, ventilate, waggle, wave, whip up, whisk), aplicar (adhibit, administer, administrate, bestow, enforse, give over, invest, place, practice, put, put on, put onto, throw, to apply), argamassa (bond, cement, daub, grout, mortar, morter, parget, plaster, pug), arremessar (bolt, dash, give over, hurl, jerk, knock, launch, pitch, plump, shoot, sling, strike, throw), arrojar (ding, give over, hurl, pump, throw), atirar (accelerate, aim, bandy, bowl, bung, cast, dart, deliver, detrude, drive, fling, give over, gun, heave, launch, loose, pitch, project, pump up, put, shoot, sling, strike, throw), bater em tambor (beat), deitar (bed, flow, give over, lay, put, put bed, shoot, spread, spread out, throw), soltar (discharge from, drop, extricate, free, give off, give over, heave, let go, let loose, liberate, loose, loosen, open, release, relinquish, set free, set up, slacken, throw, unbend, unbind, unbrace, uncage, unchain, unclasp, undo, unfasten, unfetter, unfix, unhand, unleash, unlink, unshackle, unstrap, untwine, utter), massa (aggregate, bawbee, dough, gross, havings, lump, mass, massiness, mummy, pad, paste, squash), sabugo (quick), torrão (cake, chunk, clod, divot, dollop, lump, turf), derrotar (beat, checkmate, defeat, discomfit, foil, get up the better, hammer, kill, outmatch, overcome, overpower, pill, pip, scatter, thrash, vanquish, whop, worst), empregar (affect, devote, employ, exert, give over, hire, make use of, placatory, place, put, spend, throw, use), jogar (bluff, gamble, game, give over, play, punt, throw, toy, wager), lançar (aim, blast off, carry, cast, dart, fling, give over, interject, jerk, launch, lay, pitch, plant, project, pump, pump up, put, send, shake, shoot, slam, sling, spit, throw, throw up, toss, vomit), largar (allow, drop, leave, let, release, relinquish, shed, throw, unhand), bater repetidamente (beat, knock about, knock around). (various references)

Quechua

choqlluta (corn on the cob). (various references)

Romanian

cocean de porumb, cal voinic cu picioare scurte, nucã (ball, nut, walnut), morman (drift, heap, Hill, mass, mound, pile, stack), lebãdoi, grãmadã (aheap, assemblage, batch, block, bulk, clamp, clump, cluster, collection, congeries, crowd, drift, flock, heap, host, hulk, load, lump, mass, mountain, multitude, ocean, pack, Peck, pile, power, shoal, snag, stack, throng, ton, wilderness of), bulgãre (ball, chump, clod, clot, lump), bate (bark, baste, bastinado, bay, beat, beat up, beetle, belabour, best, blow, box, bruise, buffet, burst, chastise, chime, clap, club, contend, cuff, curry, dash, defeat, drive, drub, flail, flicker, flog, go, hit, horse, knock, knock in, lace, larrup, lash, lash into, lick, mint, paddle, palpitate, Pat, patter, peal, pound, pulsate, pulse, range, rap, rattle, ring, shake up, shine, slap, smite, sound, spank, strike, swinge, switch, tan, tap, tew, thrash, throb, thwack, tick, tinkle, toll, wallop, whip, worst), bãrbãtuşul lebedei, ştiulete (corn cob), arunca (bowl, cast, cast aside, cast away, cast off, chuck, dart, dash, deliver, discard, drop, fling, huddle on, hurl, jet, jettison, launch, peg, pelt at, pitch, pluck, plump, plunge into, precipitate, project, put, reject, rush, send, shoot, slam, sling, throw, throw away, throw off, throw out, toss, tumble). (various references)

Russian 

удар (a smack in the eye /in the face/, apoplexy, bash, blow, box, buffet, bump, cant, chop, clap, cut, dash, fit of apoplexy, hit, impact, impingement, jab, kick, knock, loft, lunge, percussion, pick, push, putt, shock, stabbings, stroke, swat, thrust, wallop, well-judged blow, welt), глыба (block, clod, clump, lump, mammock), небольшой стог сена, лебедь-самец (cobswan), початок (cop, spadices, spadix), дробить руду вручную. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

mali konj, labud (swan), klip (piston, plunger), bidža. (various references)

Spanish

comer pan redondo, cisne mancho, tusa, mazorca (corn ear, ear, ear corn), jaca (nag, pony), elote (corncob). (various references)

Swedish

ridhäst (hack, Hackney, Mount, riding horse, riding-horse, saddle horse), majskolv (corn cob, maize-cob, mealie). (various references)

Thai

หงส์ตัวผู้, ซังข้าวโพ�" (silk), ขว้าง (fling, hurl, sling), ม้าพันธุ์เตี้ย. (various references)

Turkish

topak (chunk, clew, clue, dollop, glob, hunch, knurl, lump, nub, pellet, pulp), mısır koçanı (corncob), kerpiç (Adobe), küçük yuvarlak ekmek, kısa bacaklı binek atı, iri fındık (cobnut). (various references)

Ukrainian

кукурузний качан, молотити (flail, spelt, thrash, thresh), лебідь-самець (cob swan), бити (bang, batter, beat, castigate, chastise, chime, hit, lambaste, lay into, maul, sing out, souse, thump, towel, trounce, whop), дробити руду вручну. (various references)

Vietnamese 

vách toocsi, toocsi vách đất. (various references)

copp. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "cob": cobalamin, cobalamins, cobalt, cobaltic, cobaltine, cobaltines, cobaltite, cobaltites, cobaltous, cobalts, cobb, cobber, cobbers, cobbier, cobbiest, cobble, cobbled, cobbler, cobblers, cobbles, cobblestone, cobblestoned, cobblestones, cobbling, cobbs, cobby, cobelligerent, cobelligerents, cobia, cobias, coble, cobles, cobnut, cobnuts, cobra, cobras, cobs, cobweb, cobwebbed, cobwebbier, cobwebbiest, cobwebbing, cobwebby, cobwebs. (additional references)

Words ending with "cob": corncob. (additional references)

Words containing "cob": broncobuster, broncobusters, cocobola, cocobolas, cocobolo, cocobolos, corncobs, cyanocobalamin, cyanocobalamine, cyanocobalamines, cyanocobalamins, jacobin, jacobins, jacobus, jacobuses, maccoboy, maccoboys, mycobacteria, mycobacterial, mycobacterium, secobarbital, secobarbitals. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Cob" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cb, cbd, cbi, cbl, cbm, cbt, ccb, Ccbi, Ccojb, ceb, cfb, cho, Chobe, cib, Cibc, Cibd, clob, clobb, Cloob, coab, Coba, cobb, cobba, cobe, cobi, coby, cof, coj, colb, coob, Corb, cou, coub, cov, crob, Croob, csb, csob, cubb, cubo, cvo, Ecob, Icgb, icob, kob, Koob, kosb, krob, kub, octob, Pcdob. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: bo.

+1 letter: bloc, bock, cobb, cobs, comb.

+2 letters: bacon, banco, block, blocs, bocce, bocci, boche, bocks, boric, botch, brock, bronc, bucko, bunco, cabob, carbo, carob, cibol, clomb, cobbs, cobby, cobia, coble, cobra, combe, combo, combs, coomb, corby.

+3 letters: bacons, bancos, beacon, beckon, beclog, become, bemock, bicorn, bicron, binocs, bionic, biopic, biotic, blocks, blocky, blotch, bobcat, bocces, boccia, boccie, boccis, boches, bodice, bonaci, bonduc, borsch, botchy, boucle, bounce, bouncy, boxcar, broach, broche, brocks, bromic, bronco, broncs, brooch, buckos, buncos, cabobs, carbon, carbos, carboy, carobs, ceboid, cibols, cobalt, cobber, cobble, cobias, cobles, cobnut, cobras, cobweb, colobi, combat, combed, comber, combes, combos, confab, coombe, coombs, corban, corbel, corbie, corymb, cowboy, crambo, cuboid, cyborg, icebox, mobcap, niobic, object, obtect, phobic, recomb, sorbic, tombac.