cob
n. 圆块 vt. 捣碎
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释义与例句
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A corncob.
可数 不可数The grains, each of which is about the bulk of the largest marrowfat pea, are placed all round a stalk, which goes up the middle, and this little stalk, to which the seeds adhere, is called the Corn Cob.
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The seed-bearing head of a plant.
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A horse having a stout body and short legs.
可数 不可数If he comes to you riding a cob…
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Any of the gold and silver coins that were minted in the Spanish Empire and valued in reales or escudos, such as the piece of eight—especially those which were crudely struck and irregularly shaped.
可数 不可数…he put his Hand in his Pocket and pull’d out ſome Gold, ſome Broadpieces and a Gold Cob….
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One who is eminent, great, large, or rich.
可数 废旧 不可数I ſaw fleſh bluddie toe ſlauer, / When the cob had maunged the gobets foule garbaged haulfe quick.
But I would not haue a few rich cobs to get into their clowches almoſt whole countries, ſo as the poore can haue no releefe by them.
For fishing and shuting, he was the cob of all this country!
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A spider (cf. cobweb).
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A small fish, the miller's thumb.
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A large fish, especially the kabeljou (variant spelling of kob).
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The head of a herring.
可数 废旧 不可数The first red herring that was broil’d in Adam and Eve’s kitchen, do I fetch my pedigree from, by the Harrot’s book. His Cob was my great-great-mighty-great grandfather.
…he can come bragging hither with foure white Herrings (at’s taile) in blue Coates without roes in their bellies, but I may ſtarue ere he giue me ſo much as a cob.
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Clipping of cobnut.
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A male swan.
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A gull, especially the black-backed gull (Larus marinus); also spelled cobb.
可数 不可数Here is also the pica marina or seapye many sorts of Lari, seamewes & cobs.
We found here a species of cob, with a grey head, red beak and feet, very much resembling our larus ribibundus….
The Raven has a very ancient look about him, as if he could tell a lot if he thought proper, but the Cob looks weird and uncanny, as if he was continually thinking over the creatures that he had seen go down to Davy’s locker.
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A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, stone, or excrement.
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A round, often crusty roll or loaf of bread.
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A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe; also called cobb, rammed earth or pisé.
不可数 可数The poore Cotager contenteth himſelfe with Cob for his wals, and Thatch for his couering….
The walls are of cob, the external ones being about 2 feet 8 inches thick, and rest on a stone foundation.
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A thresher.
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A cylinder with pins in it, encoding music to be played back mechanically by a barrel organ.
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A person of mixed black and white ancestry, especially a griffe; a mulatto.
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A tower or small castle on top of a hill.
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A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
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Abbreviation of cobble.
List and short characteristics of sampling sites (br = bedrock, cob = cobble, gra = gravel, peb = pebble, sa = sand).
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Alternative form of COB.
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To construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent.
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To have the heads mature into corncobs.
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To remove the kernels from a corncob.
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To thresh.
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To break up ground with a hoe.
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To beat with a flat instrument; to paddle.
[…] he pulled off his hat, and said he was going to cob him for breaking the rules and laws of the ship’s company.
[…] this jail keeper took a piece of board with holes bored through it (what you call a paddle) and cobbed him and cobbed him, and, then they took salt and washed him.
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To throw, chuck, lob.
非正式Well, sir, I’m sure I’d be rid of it fast enough if I could naut cob it away like a stoan.
Each had a stone in his grasp in an instant, and simultaneously they cobbed at Master Bunnie.
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To chip off unwanted pieces of stone, so as to form a desired shape or improve the quality of mineral ore.
[…] it is not less ridiculous for instance to place a man, who may be perhaps an adept at spalling stones, in charge of a mill at the salary of a first-class foreman, than it would be to put the latter to cob ore at the wage of a labourer.
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Of uncertain origin. The word has many disparate senses, which are likely of diverse origin. The specifics of these origins have long been debated, as has the question of which senses arise from which origins. At least the swan sense originated in Middle English cobbe (“male swan; gang leader; bully”). Some other senses likely originated as a variant of cop (“head, top, peak, summit”). In other senses, the word may be related to cub, itself of obscure origin but possibly from Old Norse kobbi (“seal”). However, many alternative etymologies have been proposed to account for some or all senses of cob; various sources have related it, for example, to English cot (“cottage”), Welsh cob (“top, tuft”), or German Kübel (“large container”). All these etymologies are disputed, and the exact origins of cob cannot be known with any certainty.
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