Crossword-Solution: COB
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cob | n. | The top or head of anything. |
| Cob | n. | A leader or chief; a conspicuous person, esp. a rich covetous person. |
| Cob | n. | The axis on which the kernels of maize or indian corn grow. |
| Cob | n. | A spider; perhaps from its shape; it being round like a head. |
| Cob | n. | A young herring. |
| Cob | n. | A fish; -- also called miller's thumb. |
| Cob | n. | A short-legged and stout horse, esp. one used for the saddle. |
| Cob | n. | A sea mew or gull; esp., the black-backed gull (Larus marinus). |
| Cob | n. | A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone. |
| Cob | n. | A cobnut; as, Kentish cobs. See Cobnut. |
| Cob | n. | Clay mixed with straw. |
| Cob | n. | A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood. |
| Cob | n. | A Spanish coin formerly current in Ireland, worth abiut 4s. 6d. |
| Cob | v. t. | To strike |
| Cob | v. t. | To break into small pieces, as ore, so as to sort out its better portions. |
| Cob | v. t. | To punish by striking on the buttocks with a strap, a flat piece of wood, or the like. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| COB | anagram | BOC, CBO, OBC |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with COB (5)
All was harmoniously arranged at last, and we now see Oak mounted on a strong cob, and daily trotting the length breadth of about two thousand acres in a cheerful spirit of surveillance, as if the crops all belonged to him—the actual mistress of the one half, and the master of the other, sitting in their respective homes in gloomy and sad seclusion.
Landry was born, and spent the first fifteen years of his life, on a rocky Connecticut farm not far from Cos Cob.
Buck and his ma and all of them smoked cob pipes, except the nigger woman, which was gone, and the two young women.
Tom’s old ornery corn-cob pipe had got so old and swelled and warped that she couldn’t hold together any longer, notwithstanding the strings and bandages, but caved in and went to pieces.
Apparently he did not need it, for he spent a long time with his back to her, lifting down, one after another, the tall cob-webby volumes from a distant shelf.
Quotes with COB (3)
What you're experiencing isn't a dry spell. It's a dust bowl. Tell me, do you find cob webs in there every time you get yourself off?
He was really quite addicted to her face, and yet for the longest time he could not remember it at all, it being so much brighter than sunlight on a pool of water that he could only recall that blinding brightness; then after awhile, since she refused to give him her photograph, he began to practice looking away for a moment when he was still with her, striving to uphold in his inner vision what he had just seen (her pale, serious, smooth and slender face, oh, her dark hair, …
... All who ever died, live; they are reborn and have no end, nor will there ever be an end. All, save you. For you would not have death. You lost death, you lost life, in order to save yourself. Yourself! Your immortal self! What is it? Who are you?""I am myself. My body will not decay and die-""A living body suffers pain, Cob; a living body grows old; it dies. Death is the price we pay for our life and for all life.""I do not pay it! I can die and in that moment live again!…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 378 times in crossword archives (1944–2025).