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Synonymer

Uttal

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Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. A male swan.
  2. A corncob.
  3. (English Midlands) A round, often crusty roll or loaf of bread.
  4. (uncountable) A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe; also called cobb, rammed earth or pisé.
  5. A horse having a stout body and short legs.
  6. (East Anglia) A gull, especially the black-backed gull (Larus marinus); also spelled cobb.
  7. 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.
  8. A Spanish coin formerly current in Ireland, worth about four shillings and sixpence.
  9. (obsolete) One who is eminent, great, large, or rich.
  10. A spider.
  11. A fish, the miller's thumb.
  12. (obsolete) The head of a herring.
  13. The top or head of anything.
  14. A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone.
  15. A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.

Verb

  1. To beat with a flat instrument; to paddle.
  2. To construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent.
  3. (Northern UK, possibly colloquial) To throw, chuck, lob.
  4. To chip off unwanted pieces of stone, so as to form a desired shape or improve the quality of mineral ore.

Exempel

  • A ſhade or ſhelter from the weather, under which the Cobbers cob the Ore.
  • But I would not haue a few rich cobs to get into their clowches almoſt whole countries, ſo as the poore can haue no releefe by them.
  • For fishing and shuting, he was the cob of all this country!
  • 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.
  • …not a Scrap of him, but the Cobs of the two Herrings, the Fiſhermen had eaten, remained of him….
  • …he can come bragging hither with foure white Herrings (at’s taile) in blue Coates without roes in their bellies, but I may ſtarue ere he giue me ſo much as a cob.
  • Windows and other details can be cobbed into place, and niches and reliefs are easy to create.
  • The technique appeals to alternative builders because of its ability to be sculpted, its use of waste materials, and its pest resistant properties. Each course is tamped down, or "cobbed," to impart strength and to aid in curing.
  • And there is another alternative: both papercrete and fidobe can be cobbed.
  • [...] he pulled off his hat, and said he was going to cob him for breaking the rules and laws of the ship’s company.
  • British officers cobbed infantrymen for petty offenses, and Irish schoolchildren were paddled for failing to remove their hats, becoming the first of many schoolchildren to be cobbed.
  • [...] this jail keeper took a piece of board with holes bored through it (what you call a paddle) and cobbed him and cobbed him, and, then they took salt and washed him.
  • Well, sir, I’m sure I’d be rid of it fast enough if I could naut cob it away like a stoan.
  • I ſaw fleſh bluddie toe ſlauer, / When the cob had maunged the gobets foule garbaged haulfe quick.
  • Each had a stone in his grasp in an instant, and simultaneously they cobbed at Master Bunnie.
  • [...] it is not less ridiculous for instance to place a man, who may be perhaps an adept at spalling stones, in charge of a mill at the salary of a first-class foreman, than it would be to put the latter to cob ore at the wage of a labourer.
  • Although, wait -- best avoid rocks. Terrorists are known to cob them at the democratic forces of law and order in the free world.
  • For this reason medium-grained granite is most adaptable, if it may be split and cobbed readily along rift and grain directions.
  • A more likely explanation is that ancient crystal skull carvers first chipped (cobbed) piecees off a block of material that was destined to be shaped into a skull.
  • Iv not, aw’ll cob mi fleawers i’ th’ fire, brun mi love wi ’em, turn mi back on thee once an’ for ever, an’ lev thee to get a betther husbant wi two white e’en, iv tha con find one.
  • Capacity is also available for the export of an additional 1000 metric tons of cobbed beryl per year.
  • It was not unusual for the older girls to stay on after 5 p.m. for another two hours or so, to buck or cob an extra one or two barrows.
  • Habitats were sand, cobble (cob), sand with macrophytes (s\m) and muck with macrophytes (m\m).
  • List and short characteristics of sampling sites (br = bedrock, cob = cobble, gra = gravel, peb = pebble, sa = sand).
  • Surface substrate is expressed as the dominant particles (cob cobble, peb pebble, boul boulder)….
  • The walls are of cob, the external ones being about 2 feet 8 inches thick, and rest on a stone foundation.
  • The cob waddled out onto the island and looked in the nest.
  • The cob will defend the nest and the eggs.
  • 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.
  • I passed some mills in which the grain, cob, and husk were all ground up together for the cattle and hogs….
  • Dad had placed a cob of corn on a stump for the jays, who bickered over it non-stop.
  • The cob was a cracknel or simnel made of fine flour.
  • …I sat there and broke the crust of my cob of bread.
  • I want to do a manual job / Even bake a lovely bread cob
  • This kind of husk also protects the nut from birds, for titmice have been observed to pass over filberts, and attack cobs and common nuts growing in the same orchard.
  • Pickled walnuts are excellent if you can get hold of green walnuts, but other green nuts – hazel, cob, filbert – can be used instead.
  • The nuts of the filbert are slightly longer and narrower than the cob.
  • The poore Cotager contenteth himſelfe with Cob for his wals, and Thatch for his couering….
  • 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….
  • cob falls outside the building code, so planners would want documentation of how the adobelike material performs.
  • If he comes to you riding a cob
  • He was well-mounted upon a sturdy chestnut cob, and had the graceful seat of an experienced horseman….
  • Freize rode a strong cob and led a donkey laden with their belongings.
  • Here is also the pica marina or seapye many sorts of Lari, seamewes & cobs.
  • We found here a species of cob, with a grey head, red beak and feet, very much resembling our larus ribibundus….
  • The Raven has a very ancient look about him, as if he could tell a lot if he thought proper, but the Cob looks weird and uncanny, as if he was continually thinking over the creatures that he had seen go down to Davy’s locker.
  • …he put his Hand in his Pocket and pull’d out ſome Gold, ſome Broadpieces and a Gold Cob….
  • He then drew out a large leathern bag, and poured out the contents, which were ſilver cobs, upon the table.
  • It’s absolutely possible to find an affordable ($20-$35) low to average circulated Spanish silver cob dated around or before 1692, especially if you’re willing to settle for the smaller half real or one real cobs.
  • Cobs were usually irregularly shaped. They were a means to account for a specific amount of silver in a coin that could be used for commerce.

Böjningsformer

Perfektparticipcobbed
Imperfektcobbed
Presensparticipcobbing
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Tredje person singular indicativ presenscobs