cobs

There seems to be a rule that corn-cob skewers look like corn cobs, which is at it should be.

Tuesday, August 18 – The Bleat. 2009

They were less in size than what would now be termed cobs, almost ponies, but beautifully formed, arched-necked and heavily maned and tailed, a pair that had excited admiration in the boy's eyes as soon as he saw the chariot to which he had been led.

Marcus: the Young Centurion George Manville Fenn 1870

A sheep and cattle farmer, Mr Williams was an expert in Welsh cobs and a member of the council of the Welsh Pony and Cob Society.

WalesOnline - Home 2011

But essentially, each line is the same, whether they are called cobs, Irish cobs, tinkers,

Shelbyville Times-Gazette Headlines 2009

But essentially, each line is the same, whether they are called cobs, Irish cobs, tinkers,

Shelbyville Times-Gazette Headlines 2009

The cylinder forms a continuous set of sieves of different sized mesh, one sieve allowing only sand to pass, another only very small beans or fragments of beans, and finally one holding back anything larger than single beans (_e. g._, "cobs," that is, a collection of two or more beans stuck together).

Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer Arthur William Knapp

Buyers don't like more than half a per cent. of rubbish; I mean stones, dried twig-like pieces of pulp, dust, etc., left in the cacao, neither do they like to see "cobs," that is, two or more beans stuck together, nor ----.

Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer Arthur William Knapp

But a $200 million plant being built by S.oux Falls, S. D.-based Poet Energy will make cellulosic ethanol, which comes from plant material such as cobs, wood chips and switchgrass.

KSL / U.S. / National 2009

Second time it had a lot of semi-ground cobs in it, plus little bugs.

~~~> What Should I Bring? 2009

Damir Sagolj/Reuters Corn and cobs were the meal a North Korean woman prepared Sept. 30 in her tent in South Hwanghae Province; she lost her house in the summer's flooding.

Withering in North Korea 2011