cob

A corncob.

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….

The seed-bearing head of a plant.

Examining the cob of the plants now in seed, I found them very full of fine seed.

The following analyses exhibit the composition of the ash of the grain and cob of three specimens, grown on different soils, in Lewis county, in 1847

Clipping of cobnut.

Thy plumbs are fair indeed, but void of taste; And those large thick-shell cobs the teeth will guast.

This kind of husk also protects the nut from birds, for titmice (Parus) have been observed to pass over filberts, and attack cobs and common nuts growing in the same orchard.

A male swan.

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….

The cob waddled out onto the island and looked in the nest.

A gull, especially the black-backed gull (Larus marinus); also spelled cobb.

Here is also the pica marina or seapye many sorts of Lari, seamewes & cobs.

On Saturday the 28th we saw a whale, two sea-wolves, and two penguins; in the afternoon there appeared great numbers of ospreys, and sea-cobs, and we met with some sea-grass, with long leaves.

To construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent.

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.

To have the heads mature into corncobs.

Ninety Day came to maturity very early and cobbed plentifully, but the grain proved shallow and lacking in meal.

Corn was a bumper crop and cobbed much above average so that silage will be above average in feeding value.

To remove the kernels from a corncob.

Darning socks, knitting, fancy work, cooking, housework, cobbing corn.

Here are some of the pople who made this yearbook easy to live with: […] David Littlejohn and Martin Munroe for their concessions, All the people who cobbed corn, Sara Perry for her steadfastness and warm smile in the coffee shop, […]

To thresh.

The price paid for cobbing (separating the seed from the straw) and drawing the seed of red and white clover is from 3s. 6d. to 4s. 6d. the bushel of 5 stone of seed.

In the new machine under notice, clover can be "cobbed" and "hulled" or "drawn," and the seed delivered in one operation, the whole being done at the stack side in the open air and in one-thired of the time previously occupied.

To break up ground with a hoe.

I have in this manner cobbed, with great success, lands that had formerly been in tillage, which would no longer bring corn because they were exhausted, either by consecutive crops or by the great quantity of weeks, which impoverished them: these became as good as my regularly cobbed lands.

To beat with a flat instrument; to paddle.

[…] he pulled off his hat, and said he was going to cob him for breaking the rules and laws of the ship’s company.

White prisoners, and sometimes black ones, are put into the dungeon, and ironed; and black prisoners have been “cobbed.”

To throw, chuck, lob.

Well, sir, I’m sure I’d be rid of it fast enough if I could naut cob it away like a stoan.

Each had a stone in his grasp in an instant, and simultaneously they cobbed at Master Bunnie.

To chip off unwanted pieces of stone, so as to form a desired shape or improve the quality of mineral ore.

A ſhade or ſhelter from the weather, under which the Cobbers cob the Ore.

Pyrites with galena, gangue, and a little blende—separately cobbed, with other material of the same nature, by expert workers to minimize the quantity of dust, and then yielding: […]