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cobb

nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//kɒb//

A sea-cob or gull.

noun

  1. 1

    A sea-cob or gull.

  2. 2

    A pier made from cobblestones.

  3. 3

    A hand-basket, especially made from wicker.

  4. 4

    A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe. Also called cob, rammed earth or pisé.

  5. 5

    A knock or blow.

  6. 6

    Variant of cobAlternative form of cob (“person of mixed (black and white) race”).

    His colour is nearly that of a grif or cobb, the produce of a mulatto and negro.

Etymology

Variant spelling of cob.

Forms

plural
cobbs
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).