cob

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A corncob.
• noun A male swan.
• noun A thickset, stocky, short-legged horse.
• noun A small lump or mass, as of coal.
• noun A mixture of clay and straw used as a building material.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A kind of wicker basket made to be carried on the arm; specifically, one used for carrying seed while sowing.
• noun A roundish lump.
• noun A small haystack; a haycock.
• noun An ear of wheat. See cob-poke.
• noun The cylindrical shoot or receptacle, in the form of a spike, on which the grains of maize or Indian corn grow in rows; a corn-cob (which see).
• noun A young herring.
• noun A fish, the bullhead or miller's-thumb.
• noun The common clam, Mya arenaria.
• noun A Spanish dollar: a name formerly in use in Ireland, and still at Gibraltar.
• noun A compost of puddled clay and straw, or of straw, lime, and earth.
• noun In coal-mining, a small solid pillar of coal left in a waste as a support for the roof.
• noun Clover-seed.
• noun The top; the head; the poll.
• noun A head man; a prominent or chief person; a leader or chief.
• noun A wealthy man; especially, one who makes a vulgar use or display of his wealth; a rich and vulgar man; a chuff.
• noun A strong, thick-set, pony-built horse, capable of carrying a heavy weight at a good pace. Also cob-horse.
• noun . In pharm., a cylindrical mass of crystals of lactose (sugar of milk) formed upon a stick or cord.
• noun Tn horticulture, a kind of filbert characterized by a short rounded nut borne in short open husks. The longer nuts, in long husks, are known as true filberts.
• noun Any of the larger gulls, but more particularly the black-backed gull, Larus marinus.
• noun A blow on the buttocks with the knee, or with a strap or board; a punishment consisting of such blows. Also spelled cobb.
• noun The great black-backed gull, Larus marinus. Also spelled cobb.
• noun A sort of short breakwater.
• noun In the United States the standard for a cob is some what larger than in England, a typical cob standing about 15 hands high and weighing from 1,000 to 1,050 pounds. A cob is smoother and more compact than a coacher and has shorter legs.
• noun Same as cobswan.
• To strike; knock; beat on the buttocks with the knee, or with a board or strap.
• In mining, to break (ore) into small fragments with a hammer, in the process of dressing it for the smelter.
• To excel; outdo; beat.
• To throw.
• To fight.
• Also spelled cobb.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun obsolete The top or head of anything.
• noun obsolete A leader or chief; a conspicuous person, esp. a rich covetous person.
• noun United States The axis on which the kernels of maize or indian corn grow.
• noun (Zoöl.) A spider; perhaps from its shape; it being round like a head.
• noun (Zoöl.) A young herring.
• noun (Zoöl.) A fish; -- also called miller's thumb.
• noun engraving A short-legged and stout horse, esp. one used for the saddle.
• noun (Zoöl.) A sea mew or gull; esp., the black-backed gull (Larus marinus).
• noun A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone.
• noun engraving A cobnut. See Cobnut.
• noun Prov. Eng. Clay mixed with straw.
• noun A punishment consisting of blows inflictod on tho buttocas with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
• noun obsolete A Spanish coin formerly current in Ireland, worth abiut 4s. 6d.
• noun coal in rounded lumps from the size of an egg to that of a football; -- called also cobbles.
• noun a crusty, uneven loaf, rounded at top.