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from The Century Dictionary.

noun A flat piece of wood used in cobbing. See cob.

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He whipped her with a cobbing-board until she fainted, -- she was so bad that they sent for Dr. W--; but he was so angry at what my master had done, that he would not go.

A North-Side View of Slavery. The Refugee: or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada. Related by Themselves, with an Account of the History and Condition of the Colored Population of Upper Canada 1856
He used the cobbing-board until he burst it to pieces, then a boy came with an arm full of switches.

A North-Side View of Slavery. The Refugee: or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada. Related by Themselves, with an Account of the History and Condition of the Colored Population of Upper Canada 1856
Page 70 with a cobbing-board full of auger holes, and somebody was cutting switches.

A North-Side View of Slavery. The Refugee: or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada. Related by Themselves, with an Account of the History and Condition of the Colored Population of Upper Canada 1856
The "cobbing-board" and the red cowhide were not half so terrible as he.

The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Mayne Reid 1850

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chained_bear commented on the word cobbing-board

"'...when I was a youngster in the Queen, and I stood up to a tyrannical brute, quite sure he would prove a barnyard cock and turn shy. Lord, how he did bang me up and down,' -- laughing heartily at the recollection -- 'and when I could no longer hear or see or keep my feet he stood over me with a cobbing-board ...'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission, 293

February 14, 2008