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Cob

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Noun

1. cob, cobnut, filbert, hazelnut

nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus

2. cob

stocky short-legged harness horse

3. black-backed gull, cob, great black-backed gull, larus marinus

white gull having a black back and wings

4. cob

adult male swan

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Cob

see synonyms of cob
noun
1. 
a male swan
2. 
a thickset short-legged type of riding and draught horse
3.  short for corncob, corncob pipe, cobnut
4. British another name for hazel (sense 1)
5. 
a small rounded lump or heap of coal, ore, etc
6. British and New Zealand
a building material consisting of a mixture of clay and chopped straw
7. Also called: cob loaf British
a round loaf of bread
verbWord forms: cobs, cobbing or cobbed
8. (transitive) British informal
to beat, esp on the buttocks
noun
an archaic or dialect name for the greater black-backed gull (Larus marinus)
See also gull1

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Cob

see synonyms of cob
noun
1.  British, Dialectal
a. 
a lump or small mass, as of coal
b. 
a leader; chief
2.  US
a corncob
3. 
a male swan
4. 
a short-legged, thickset riding horse

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Cob

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n.
1. A corncob: corn on the cob.
2. A male swan.
3. A thickset, stocky, short-legged horse.
4. A small lump or mass, as of coal.
5. A mixture of clay and straw used as a building material.

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