English Dictionary

cob

/kɑb/

noun

A corncob. / The seed-bearing head of a plant. / Clipping of cobnut. / A male swan. / (East Anglia) A gull, especially the black-backed gull (Larus marinus); also spelled cobb.

I found a cob in the cornfield.

意味（1）

A corncob.

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.

意味（2）

The seed-bearing head of a plant.

Examining the cob of the plants now in seed, I found them very full of fine seed.

意味（3）

Clipping of cobnut.

Thy plumbs are fair indeed, but void of taste; And those large thick-shell cobs the teeth will guast.

意味（4）

A male swan.

In all common streams, and private waters, when cygnets are taken up, the owner of the cob must chuse the first cygnet, and the pen the next, and so in order….

意味（5）

(East Anglia) A gull, especially the black-backed gull (Larus marinus); also spelled cobb.

Here is also the pica marina or seapye many sorts of Lari, seamewes & cobs.

意味（6）

A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone.

意味（7）

(Midlands) A round, often crusty roll or loaf of bread.

The cob was a cracknel or simnel made of fine flour.

意味（8）

(uncountable) A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe; also called cobb, rammed earth or pisé.

The poore Cotager contenteth himſelfe with Cob for his wals, and Thatch for his couering….

意味（9）

A horse having a stout body and short legs.

If he comes to you riding a cob…

意味（10）

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.

…he put his Hand in his Pocket and pull’d out ſome Gold, ſome Broadpieces and a Gold Cob….

意味（11）

(obsolete) One who is eminent, great, large, or rich.

I ſaw fleſh bluddie toe ſlauer, / When the cob had maunged the gobets foule garbaged haulfe quick.

意味（12）

A spider (cf. cobweb).

意味（13）

A small fish, the miller's thumb.

意味（14）

A large fish, especially the kabeljou (variant spelling of kob).

意味（15）

(obsolete) The head of a herring.

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.

意味（16）

(obsolete) A tower or small castle on top of a hill.

Perhaps though in time one may make them to yield, But 'tis pretty'st Cob-Castle e'er I beheld.

意味（17）

(obsolete) A thresher.

Who can make the worm a cob to thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and make the hills as chaff.

意味（18）

(music, historical) A cylinder with pins in it, encoding music to be played back mechanically by a barrel organ.

意味（19）

(dated or historical) A person of mixed black and white ancestry, especially a griffe; a mulatto.

[…] but he does not say whether the nobleman is a mulatto or half-caste, or what advantage is to be derived from purchasing a cob belonging to a dark-brown nobleman.