(military, prison) an unofficial form of punishment among the crew or prisoners involving blows to the buttocks from a piece of wood / (mining) The manual separation of minerals in ore using a hammer.

present participle of cob

plural of cobbing

To beat with a flat instrument; to paddle. / (Northern UK, colloquial) To throw, chuck, lob. / To chip off unwanted pieces of stone, so as to form a desired shape or improve the quality of mineral ore.

A corncob. / The seed-bearing head of a plant. / Clipping of cobnut. / A male swan. / (East Anglia) A gull, especially the black-backed gull (Larus marinus); also spelled cobb.

To construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent. / (of growing corn) To have the heads mature into corncobs. / To remove the kernels from a corncob. / To thresh.

Abbreviation of cobble. / Alternative form of COB

A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.

plural of cob

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cob