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▪ I. † scob1 Obs.|skɒb|
Also 5 scobe, 5–6 skobbe, 7 scobb.
[Of obscure etymology.]
A box, a chest.
1469–70in Swayne Sarum Churchw. Acc. (1896) 13 Pro ijbus clauibus..vnum..pro parua skobbe in Vestibulo. 1481–2Ibid. 368 A lytell key to the scobbe by fore the Rood Awt'. 1507–8Ibid. 261, j skobbe pro ornamentis Altaris predicte imponend'. 1521–2Ibid. 65 A loke to the sextens scobe. 1550–51Ibid. 91 Sold' to Xpōfer tucker a skobbe wch we Receyued therfor xxd.
b. Winchester School (see quots. 1862 and 1891).
c1615in Walcott William of Wykeham (1852) 167 Item, for a scobb to hold his books 0 3 6. 1862H. B. Wheatley Anagrams 141 At Winchester School the boys are in the habit of calling the huge old boxes that serve them for desks, skobs; skob being box (or rather boks) spelt backwards. 1891Wrench Winchester Word-bk., Scob, or Scobb, an oak box with a double lid, set at the angles of the squares of wooden benches in School. It is used as desk and bookcase. 1893Q. Rev. Oct. 382 Here stood the ‘Scobs’ or oak boxes which contained all that a boy could call his own.
▪ II. scob2 Weaving.|skɒb|
(See quots.)
1863J. Watson Art Weaving 141 When the weft passes over a portion of the warp without being interwoven with it, the defect is that the yarn hangs loose at that part, and it is called a Scob, Float, or Flow. Ibid., Scob or Float Preventer. 1878Barlow Weaving 442 Scobs (Scotch term), the warp and weft not properly interwoven. |