English Dictionary

cob

/kɑb/

verb

To construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent. / (of growing corn) To have the heads mature into corncobs. / To remove the kernels from a corncob. / To thresh.

The spider cobwebs the corner of the room.

意味（1）

To construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent.

Windows and other details can be cobbed into place, and niches and reliefs are easy to create.

意味（2）

(of growing corn) To have the heads mature into corncobs.

Ninety Day came to maturity very early and cobbed plentifully, but the grain proved shallow and lacking in meal.

意味（3）

To remove the kernels from a corncob.

Darning socks, knitting, fancy work, cooking, housework, cobbing corn.

意味（4）

To thresh.

The price paid for cobbing (separating the seed from the straw) and drawing the seed of red and white clover is from 3s. 6d. to 4s. 6d. the bushel of 5 stone of seed.

意味（5）

To break up ground with a hoe.

I have in this manner cobbed, with great success, lands that had formerly been in tillage, which would no longer bring corn because they were exhausted, either by consecutive crops or by the great quantity of weeks, which impoverished them: these became as good as my regularly cobbed lands.