Usually means: Thick, sturdy base or stalk.
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We found 55 dictionaries that define the word cob:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. cob: Merriam-Webster
  2. COB, COB, cob, cob, cob, cob, cob: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cob: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cob: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cob: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cob, cob: Wordnik
  7. cob: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. COB, cob: Wiktionary
  9. cob: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cob: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cob: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. COB: Dictionary.com
  13. cob: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cob: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. COB, Cob (building), Cob (horse), Cob (material), Cob (swan), Cob: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cob: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cob: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cob: Rhymezone
  19. Cob: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cob: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. COB: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Cob: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. cob: FreeDictionary.org
  24. cob: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. cob: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. cob: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. cob: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Coffee Glossary (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. BuzzWhack (No longer online)
  2. COB: Investopedia
  3. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. COB: Netlingo
  2. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  3. SMS Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. cob: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cob: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. Cob: Castle Terms
  3. COB: Acronym Finder
  4. COB: Three Letter Words with definitions
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Bird On! (No longer online)
  3. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. cob, cob, cob, cob, cob, cob, cob: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. cob: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. C.O.B, C.O.B, the cob: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cob: Sports Definitions

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  3. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of PCB Terms (No longer online)
  5. Semiconductor Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See cobby as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A corncob.
noun:  The seed-bearing head of a plant.
noun:  A male swan.
noun:  (East Anglia) A gull, especially the black-backed gull (Larus marinus); also spelled cobb.
noun:  A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone.
noun:  (Midlands) A round, often crusty roll or loaf of bread.
noun:  (uncountable) A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe; also called cobb, rammed earth or pisé.
noun:  A horse having a stout body and short legs.
noun:  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.
noun:  (obsolete) One who is eminent, great, large, or rich.
noun:  A spider (cf. cobweb).
noun:  A small fish, the miller's thumb.
noun:  A large fish, especially the kabeljou (variant spelling of kob).
noun:  (obsolete) The head of a herring.
noun:  (obsolete) A tower or small castle on top of a hill.
noun:  (obsolete) A thresher.
noun:  (music, historical) A cylinder with pins in it, encoding music to be played back mechanically by a barrel organ.
noun:  (dated or historical) A person of mixed black and white ancestry, especially a griffe; a mulatto.
verb:  To construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent.
verb:  (of growing corn) To have the heads mature into corncobs.
verb:  To remove the kernels from a corncob.
verb:  To thresh.
verb:  To break up ground with a hoe.
verb:  To beat with a flat instrument; to paddle.
verb:  (Northern UK, colloquial) To throw, chuck, lob.
verb:  To chip off unwanted pieces of stone, so as to form a desired shape or improve the quality of mineral ore.
noun:  A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
noun:  Coordination of Benefits
noun:  Chairman of the Board
noun:  Chip on Board
noun:  Clive's Original Band, band started by Clive Palmer after he left The Incredible String Band.
noun:  Clipping of cobnut. [A nut of a common hazel (Corylus avellana); hazelnut.]
noun:  Abbreviation of cobble. [A cobblestone.]
noun:  Alternative form of COB [Coordination of Benefits]
noun:  (US, military) Initialism of contingency operating base.
noun:  (military) Acronym of chief of boat.
noun:  Initialism of close of business; the end of day on a business day. [The end of a business day.]
noun:  (sports) Abbreviation of Cobourg. [A town, the county seat of Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada, situated on Lake Ontario.]

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