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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024cob /kɑb/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- corncob (def. 1):We ate corn on the cob at the summer picnic.
- Birdsa male swan.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024cob (kob),USA pronunciation n. - a corncob.
- Birdsa male swan.
- a short-legged, thick-set horse, often having a high gait and frequently used for driving.
- British Termsa mixture of clay and straw, used as a building material.
- British Termsa rounded mass or lump.
- Currencya crude silver or gold Spanish-American coin of the 16th to 18th centuries, characteristically irregular in shape and bearing only a partial impression of the dies from which it was struck.
- 1375–1425; late Middle English cobbe male swan, leader of a gang; these and various subsequent senses are obscurely related and probably in part of distinct origin, originally
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: cob /kɒb/ n - a male swan
- a thickset short-legged type of riding and draught horse
- short for corncob, corncob pipe, cobnut
- Brit
another name for hazel - a small rounded lump or heap of coal, ore, etc
- Brit NZ a building material consisting of a mixture of clay and chopped straw
- Also called: cob loaf Brit a round loaf of bread
Etymology: 15th Century: of uncertain origin; probably related to Icelandic kobbi seal; see cub cob•nut (kob′nut′),USA pronunciation n. - Plant Biologythe nut of certain cultivated varieties of hazel, Corylus avellana grandis.
- Plant Biologya tree bearing such nuts.
- late Middle English cobylle nutt. See cobble1, nut 1400–50
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: cobnut /ˈkɒbˌnʌt/, cob n - other names for a hazelnut
Etymology: 16th Century: from earlier cobylle nut; see cobble1, nut |