† cobbardn.
Obsolete or dialect.
See quot. 1879, and cf. cob-iron n.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for heating buildings, rooms, etc. > hearth or fireplace > cradle for firewood
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gawberd1483
cob-ironsc1485
1403 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1883) II. 20 Unius gobart de ferro.
1411 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1883) II. 86 j. gobard, iijd.
c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 663/28 Nomina pertinencia ad pistrinum: Hec uertebra, cobarde.
1481 Will of Elene Langwith (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/7) f. 19v Rakkes oþerwise called cobertes.
1483 Act 1 Rich. III c. 12 §2 No Merchant Stranger..shall bring..Andyrons, Cobbards, Tongs, Fireforks, Gredyrons.
?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 770/3 Hec ipepurgium [printed ipegurgium], a gobard.
1539 Inv. Dale Priory, Derby in Archæol. XLIII. 222 A payr of coberds.
c1758 in G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. 1 Paire of Cobbits.
1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Cobbits, two iron bars having knobs at the upper end to rest upon the andirons; meeting at the opposite extremity on the centre of the hearth, they form a kind of cradle for the firewood... The term still (1873) lingers amongst the old people, though the things which it expresses are rarely to be seen.
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