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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

COB, n.
1. The top or head; a covetous wretch; a foreign coin.
2. In America, the receptacle of the maiz, or American corn; a shoot in form of a pin or spike, on which grows the corn in rows. This receptacle, with the corn, is called the ear.
3. A sea-fowl, the sea-cob.
4. A ball or pellet for feeding fowls.
5. In some parts of England, a spider. Old Dutch, kop or koppe, a spider, retained in koppespin, spinnekop, a spider.
6. A horse not castrated; a strong poney.
COB, v.t. In seamens language, to punish by striking the breech with a flat piece of wood, or with a board.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus [syn: hazelnut, filbert, cobnut, cob]
2: stocky short-legged harness horse
3: white gull having a black back and wings [syn: black-backed gull, great black-backed gull, cob, Larus marinus]
4: adult male swan

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English cobbe leader of a group, head; probably akin to cub (young animal), Middle English kebbe old cow or sheep, Dutch dialect kabbe, kebbe piglet Date: 15th century 1. [perhaps short for cobswan lead swan] a male swan 2. a. dialect England a rounded mass, lump, or heap b. a mixture of unburnt clay and straw used especially for constructing walls of small houses in England 3. a crudely struck old Spanish coin of irregular shape 4. corncob 1 5. a stocky short-legged riding horse

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. n. 1 a roundish lump of coal etc. 2 Brit. a domed loaf of bread. 3 Brit. = corn-cob (see CORN(1)). 4 (in full cob-nut) a large hazelnut. 5 a sturdy riding- or driving-horse with short legs. 6 a male swan. Etymology: ME: orig. unkn. 2. n. a material for walls, made from compressed earth, clay, or chalk reinforced with straw. Etymology: 17th c.: orig. unkn.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cob Cob, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cobbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Cobbing.] 1. To strike [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. 2. (Mining) To break into small pieces, as ore, so as to sort out its better portions. --Raymond. 3. (Naut.) To punish by striking on the buttocks with a strap, a flat piece of wood, or the like.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cob Cob, n. [Cf. AS. cop, copp, head, top, D. kop, G. kopf, kuppe, LL. cuppa cup (cf. E. brainpan), and also W. cob tuft, spider, cop, copa, top, summit, cobio to thump. Cf. Cop top, Cup, n.] 1. The top or head of anything. [Obs.] --W. Gifford. 2. A leader or chief; a conspicuous person, esp. a rich covetous person. [Obs.] All cobbing country chuffs, which make their bellies and their bags their god, are called rich cobs. --Nash. 3. The axis on which the kernels of maize or indian corn grow. [U. S.] 4. (Zo["o]l.) A spider; perhaps from its shape; it being round like a head. 5. (Zo["o]l.) A young herring. --B. Jonson. 6. (Zo["o]l.) A fish; -- also called miller's thumb. 7. A short-legged and stout horse, esp. one used for the saddle. [Eng.] 8. (Zo["o]l.) A sea mew or gull; esp., the black-backed gull (Larus marinus). [Written also cobb.] 9. A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone. 10. A cobnut; as, Kentish cobs. See Cobnut. [Eng.] 11. Clay mixed with straw. [Prov. Eng.] The poor cottager contenteth himself with cob for his walls, and thatch for his covering. --R. Carew. 12. A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood. --Wright. 13. A Spanish coin formerly current in Ireland, worth abiut 4s. 6d. [Obs.] --Wright. Cob coal, coal in rounded lumps from the size of an egg to that of a football; -- called also cobbles. --Grose. Cob loaf, a crusty, uneven loaf, rounded at top. --Wright. 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(cobs) 1. A cob is a round loaf of bread. (BRIT) N-COUNT 2. A cob is a type of short strong horse. N-COUNT 3. see also corn on the cob

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Sea-mew, sea-cob, gull, mew. 2. Horse (short-legged and stout), cob-horse. 3. [U. S.] Spike (of maize), corn-cob.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

A Spanish dollar.

Moby Thesaurus

ambler, auricle, bang, cap, corncob, ding, ear, ear of corn, exceed, excel, gaited horse, galloper, high-stepper, mealie, outdo, outmatch, outshine, outstrip, pacer, pad, padnag, prancer, racker, side-wheeler, single-footer, spike, stepper, trotter