(East Anglia) A gull, especially the black-backed gull (Larus marinus); also spelled cobb.
(Midlands) A round, often crusty roll or loaf of bread.
(dated or historical) A person of mixed black and white ancestry, especially a griffe; a mulatto.
(music, historical) A cylinder with pins in it, encoding music to be played back mechanically by a barrel organ.
(obsolete) A thresher.
(obsolete) A tower or small castle on top of a hill.
(obsolete) One who is eminent, great, large, or rich.
(obsolete) The head of a herring.
(uncountable) A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe; also called cobb, rammed earth or pisé.
A corncob.
A horse having a stout body and short legs.
A large fish, especially the kabeljou (variant spelling of kob).
A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone.
A male swan.
A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
A small fish, the miller's thumb.
A spider (cf. cobweb).
Abbreviation of cobble.
Alternative form of COB
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.
Clipping of cobnut.
The seed-bearing head of a plant.
verb
(Northern UK, colloquial) To throw, chuck, lob.
(of growing corn) To have the heads mature into corncobs.
To beat with a flat instrument; to paddle.
To break up ground with a hoe.
To chip off unwanted pieces of stone, so as to form a desired shape or improve the quality of mineral ore.
To construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent.
