cob

Etymology 1
Of origin. The word has many disparate senses, which are likely of diverse origin. The specifics of these origins have long been debated, as has the question of which senses arise from which origins. At least the swan sense originated in. Some other senses likely originated as a variant of. In other senses, the word may be related to, itself of obscure origin but possibly from 🇨🇬. However, many alternative etymologies have been proposed to account for some or all senses of cob; various sources have related it, for example, to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, or 🇨🇬. All these etymologies are disputed, and the exact origins of cob cannot be known with any certainty.

Noun

 * 1) A corncob.
 * 2) * 1818, William Cobbett, A Year’s Residence in the United States of America, part I, Clayton and Kingsland, page 18:
 * The grains, each of which is about the bulk of the largest marrowfat pea, are placed all round a stalk, which goes up the middle, and this little stalk, to which the seeds adhere, is called the Corn Cob.
 * 1) The seed-bearing head of a plant.
 * 2) A male swan.
 * 3)  A gull, especially the black-backed gull ; also spelled cobb.
 * 4) * 1668, Thomas Browne, "Notes on Certain Birds Found in Norfolk", in Notes and Letters on the Natural History of Norfolk, Jarrold & Sons (1902), pages 8–9:
 * Here is also the pica marina or seapye many sorts of Lari, seamewes & cobs.
 * 1) * 1820, Sir Richard Phillips and Co. (tr.), Travels in Brazil (in New Voyages and Travels, volume III), translation of Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied, Reise nach Brasilien (1817), page 21:
 * We found here a species of cob, with a grey head, red beak and feet, very much resembling our larus ribibundus….
 * 1) * 1895, A Son of the Marshes [Denham Jordan], The Wild-Fowl and Sea-Fowl of Great Britain, Chapman and Hall, page 312:
 * The Raven has a very ancient look about him, as if he could tell a lot if he thought proper, but the Cob looks weird and uncanny, as if he was continually thinking over the creatures that he had seen go down to Davy’s locker.
 * 1) A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone.
 * 2)  A round, often crusty roll or loaf of bread.
 * 3)  A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe; also called cobb, rammed earth or pisé.
 * 4) * 1602, Richard Carew, The Svrvey of Cornwall, new edition (1769), page 53:
 * The poore Cotager contenteth himſelfe with Cob for his wals, and Thatch for his couering….
 * 1) * 1889, T. N. Brushfield, "The Birthplace of Sir Walter Raleigh", in Reports and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art, volume XXI, W. Brendon & Son, page 323
 * The walls are of cob, the external ones being about 2 feet 8 inches thick, and rest on a stone foundation.
 * 1) A horse having a stout body and short legs.
 * 2) * 1828, Winthrop Mackworth Praed, "A Letter of Advice", in The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, volume 23, part II, S. and H. Bentley, page 543:
 * If he comes to you riding a cob…
 * 1) 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.
 * 2) * 1701, Daniel Mac-Cay, testimony in the trial of Patrick Hurly, transcribed in A Complete Collection of State-Trials, and Proceedings upon High-Treason, and Other Crimes and Misdemeanours, volume 5, 2nd edition (1730), page 404:
 * …he put his Hand in his Pocket and pull’d out ſome Gold, ſome Broadpieces and a Gold Cob….
 * 1)  One who is eminent, great, large, or rich.
 * 2) * 1583, Richard Stanyhurst (tr.), The First Fovre Bookes of Virgils Æneis, Henrie Bynneman, page 86:
 * I ſaw fleſh bluddie toe ſlauer, / When the cob had maunged the gobets foule garbaged haulfe quick.
 * 1) * 1583, Phillip Stubbes, The Second Part of the Anatomie of Abuses, N. Trübner & Co. (1882), page 27:
 * But I would not haue a few rich cobs to get into their clowches almoſt whole countries, ſo as the poore can haue no releefe by them.
 * 1) * 1827, anonymous angler quoted in William Hone, The Every-Day Book, volume II, part II, Hunt and Clarke, page 769:
 * For fishing and shuting, he was the cob of all this country!
 * 1) A spider (cf. cobweb).
 * 2) A small fish, the miller's thumb.
 * 3) A large fish, especially the kabeljou (variant spelling of kob).
 * 4)  The head of a herring.
 * 5) * 1598, Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humour, in The Modern British Drama, 3rd volume, James Ballantyne and Co. (1811), page 5:
 * The first red herring that was broil’d in Adam and Eve’s kitchen, do I fetch my pedigree from, by the Harrot’s book. His Cob was my great-great-mighty-great grandfather.
 * 1) * 1605, Thomas Dekker, The Honest Whore, in The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker, 2nd volume, John Pearson (1873), page 147:
 * …he can come bragging hither with foure white Herrings (at’s taile) in blue Coates without roes in their bellies, but I may ſtarue ere he giue me ſo much as a cob.
 * 1)  A tower or small castle on top of a hill.
 * 2)  A thresher.
 * 3)  A cylinder with pins in it, encoding music to be played back mechanically by a barrel organ.
 * 4)  A person of mixed black and white ancestry, especially a griffe; a mulatto.
 * 1) 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.
 * 2) * 1701, Daniel Mac-Cay, testimony in the trial of Patrick Hurly, transcribed in A Complete Collection of State-Trials, and Proceedings upon High-Treason, and Other Crimes and Misdemeanours, volume 5, 2nd edition (1730), page 404:
 * …he put his Hand in his Pocket and pull’d out ſome Gold, ſome Broadpieces and a Gold Cob….
 * 1)  One who is eminent, great, large, or rich.
 * 2) * 1583, Richard Stanyhurst (tr.), The First Fovre Bookes of Virgils Æneis, Henrie Bynneman, page 86:
 * I ſaw fleſh bluddie toe ſlauer, / When the cob had maunged the gobets foule garbaged haulfe quick.
 * 1) * 1583, Phillip Stubbes, The Second Part of the Anatomie of Abuses, N. Trübner & Co. (1882), page 27:
 * But I would not haue a few rich cobs to get into their clowches almoſt whole countries, ſo as the poore can haue no releefe by them.
 * 1) * 1827, anonymous angler quoted in William Hone, The Every-Day Book, volume II, part II, Hunt and Clarke, page 769:
 * For fishing and shuting, he was the cob of all this country!
 * 1) A spider (cf. cobweb).
 * 2) A small fish, the miller's thumb.
 * 3) A large fish, especially the kabeljou (variant spelling of kob).
 * 4)  The head of a herring.
 * 5) * 1598, Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humour, in The Modern British Drama, 3rd volume, James Ballantyne and Co. (1811), page 5:
 * The first red herring that was broil’d in Adam and Eve’s kitchen, do I fetch my pedigree from, by the Harrot’s book. His Cob was my great-great-mighty-great grandfather.
 * 1) * 1605, Thomas Dekker, The Honest Whore, in The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker, 2nd volume, John Pearson (1873), page 147:
 * …he can come bragging hither with foure white Herrings (at’s taile) in blue Coates without roes in their bellies, but I may ſtarue ere he giue me ſo much as a cob.
 * 1)  A tower or small castle on top of a hill.
 * 2)  A thresher.
 * 3)  A cylinder with pins in it, encoding music to be played back mechanically by a barrel organ.
 * 4)  A person of mixed black and white ancestry, especially a griffe; a mulatto.
 * 1) * 1598, Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humour, in The Modern British Drama, 3rd volume, James Ballantyne and Co. (1811), page 5:
 * The first red herring that was broil’d in Adam and Eve’s kitchen, do I fetch my pedigree from, by the Harrot’s book. His Cob was my great-great-mighty-great grandfather.
 * 1) * 1605, Thomas Dekker, The Honest Whore, in The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker, 2nd volume, John Pearson (1873), page 147:
 * …he can come bragging hither with foure white Herrings (at’s taile) in blue Coates without roes in their bellies, but I may ſtarue ere he giue me ſo much as a cob.
 * 1)  A tower or small castle on top of a hill.
 * 2)  A thresher.
 * 3)  A cylinder with pins in it, encoding music to be played back mechanically by a barrel organ.
 * 4)  A person of mixed black and white ancestry, especially a griffe; a mulatto.
 * 1)  A thresher.
 * 2)  A cylinder with pins in it, encoding music to be played back mechanically by a barrel organ.
 * 3)  A person of mixed black and white ancestry, especially a griffe; a mulatto.
 * 1)  A person of mixed black and white ancestry, especially a griffe; a mulatto.

Coordinate terms

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Translations

 * Bulgarian: мъжки лебед
 * Faroese: svanasteggi (there is no special word in Faroese for cob in this sense)
 * Finnish: urosjoutsen
 * French: cygne mâle (there is no special word in French for cob in this sense)
 * German: Schwanenmännchen (cf. Schwanen-, ),
 * Greek: αρσενικός κύκνος
 * Kashmiri: أنٛز
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish: cisne macho (there is no special word in Spanish for cob in this sense)
 * Swedish: svanhane
 * Volapük: hisvan


 * Bulgarian:
 * French:
 * Hungarian:
 * Persian:, ارزخ
 * Walloon:, ,


 * Greek:
 * Irish: leathchapall, gearrchapall
 * Swedish:


 * Lithuanian:

Verb

 * 1) To construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent.
 * 2)  To have the heads mature into corncobs.
 * 3) To remove the kernels from a corncob.
 * 4) To thresh.
 * 5) To break up ground with a hoe.
 * 1) To remove the kernels from a corncob.
 * 2) To thresh.
 * 3) To break up ground with a hoe.
 * 1) To remove the kernels from a corncob.
 * 2) To thresh.
 * 3) To break up ground with a hoe.
 * 1) To thresh.
 * 2) To break up ground with a hoe.
 * 1) To break up ground with a hoe.
 * 1) To break up ground with a hoe.
 * 1) To break up ground with a hoe.

Etymology 2
. Possibly, but it has also been suggested that the word could be a continuation of 🇨🇬, a borrowing of 🇨🇬, or a cognate of 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) To beat with a flat instrument; to paddle.
 * 2) * 1803, Andrew Mitchell, "Extract from the Trial of the Mutineers on board the Bantry Bay Squadron", The Annual Register, volume XLIV, R. Wilks, page 556:
 * he pulled off his hat, and said he was going to cob him for breaking the rules and laws of the ship’s company.
 * 1) * 1863, Susan Boggs, interview transcribed in Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies, ed. John Wesley Blassingame, Louisiana State University Press (1977), ISBN 0-8071-0184-2, page 419:
 * this jail keeper took a piece of board with holes bored through it (what you call a paddle) and cobbed him and cobbed him, and, then they took salt and washed him.
 * 1)  To throw, chuck, lob.
 * 2) * 1862, Philip Gilbert Hamerton (quoting a Lancashire shepherd), A Painter’s Camp in the Highlands, volume I, Macmillan and Co., page 69:
 * Well, sir, I’m sure I’d be rid of it fast enough if I could naut cob it away like a stoan.
 * 1) * 1878, Robert Richardson, "How the Fight was Stopped", in The Young Cragsman, And Other Stories, William Oliphant and Co., page 72:
 * Each had a stone in his grasp in an instant, and simultaneously they cobbed at Master Bunnie.
 * 1) To chip off unwanted pieces of stone, so as to form a desired shape or improve the quality of mineral ore.
 * 2) * 1894, A. G. Charleton, "The Choice of Coarse and Fine-Crushing Machinery and Processes of Ore Treatment", part IV, in Transactions of the Federated Institution of Mining Engineers, volume VI (M. Walton Brown, ed.), Andrew Reid, Sons & Co., page 95:
 * it is not less ridiculous for instance to place a man, who may be perhaps an adept at spalling stones, in charge of a mill at the salary of a first-class foreman, than it would be to put the latter to cob ore at the wage of a labourer.
 * Each had a stone in his grasp in an instant, and simultaneously they cobbed at Master Bunnie.
 * 1) To chip off unwanted pieces of stone, so as to form a desired shape or improve the quality of mineral ore.
 * 2) * 1894, A. G. Charleton, "The Choice of Coarse and Fine-Crushing Machinery and Processes of Ore Treatment", part IV, in Transactions of the Federated Institution of Mining Engineers, volume VI (M. Walton Brown, ed.), Andrew Reid, Sons & Co., page 95:
 * it is not less ridiculous for instance to place a man, who may be perhaps an adept at spalling stones, in charge of a mill at the salary of a first-class foreman, than it would be to put the latter to cob ore at the wage of a labourer.
 * 1) * 1894, A. G. Charleton, "The Choice of Coarse and Fine-Crushing Machinery and Processes of Ore Treatment", part IV, in Transactions of the Federated Institution of Mining Engineers, volume VI (M. Walton Brown, ed.), Andrew Reid, Sons & Co., page 95:
 * it is not less ridiculous for instance to place a man, who may be perhaps an adept at spalling stones, in charge of a mill at the salary of a first-class foreman, than it would be to put the latter to cob ore at the wage of a labourer.
 * 1) * 1894, A. G. Charleton, "The Choice of Coarse and Fine-Crushing Machinery and Processes of Ore Treatment", part IV, in Transactions of the Federated Institution of Mining Engineers, volume VI (M. Walton Brown, ed.), Andrew Reid, Sons & Co., page 95:
 * it is not less ridiculous for instance to place a man, who may be perhaps an adept at spalling stones, in charge of a mill at the salary of a first-class foreman, than it would be to put the latter to cob ore at the wage of a labourer.

Noun

 * 1) A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.

Noun

 * 1) * 2002, Christian Vogt & Wolfhard Symader, "Evaluation of Small Rivers by Combining Biological Sampling with a Structure Analysis of River Beds", in Fiona J. Dyer, Martin C. Thomas, & Jon M. Olley (eds.), The Structure, Function and Management Implications of Fluvial Sedimentary Systems, International Association of Hydrological Sciences, ISBN 1-901502-96-1, page 71:
 * List and short characteristics of sampling sites (br = bedrock, cob = cobble, gra = gravel, peb = pebble, sa = sand).
 * 1) * 2002, Christian Vogt & Wolfhard Symader, "Evaluation of Small Rivers by Combining Biological Sampling with a Structure Analysis of River Beds", in Fiona J. Dyer, Martin C. Thomas, & Jon M. Olley (eds.), The Structure, Function and Management Implications of Fluvial Sedimentary Systems, International Association of Hydrological Sciences, ISBN 1-901502-96-1, page 71:
 * List and short characteristics of sampling sites (br = bedrock, cob = cobble, gra = gravel, peb = pebble, sa = sand).

Etymology
, from a West African language, probably.

Noun

 * 1) kob (, a species of African antelope related to the waterbuck)

Noun

 * 1)  victory