cob : Idioms & Phrases

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Cob coal

  • coal in rounded lumps from the size of an egg to that of a football; called also cobbles. Grose.
Webster 1913

Cob loaf

  • a crusty, uneven loaf, rounded at top. Wright.
Webster 1913

Cob money

  • a kind of rudely coined gold and silver money of Spanish South America in the eighteenth century. The coins were of the weight of the piece of eight, or one of its aliquot parts.
Webster 1913

corn cob

  • noun the hard cylindrical core that bears the kernels of an ear of corn
    corncob.
WordNet

sea cob

Sea" cob`
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) The black-backed gull.
Webster 1913