English Dictionary

cob

IPA（発音記号）

/kɑb/

動詞

前置詞句

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.

日本語の意味

泥煉瓦や同等の材質を用いて建築や壁の密封を行う / （とうもろこしが）実が熟して穂状になる / とうもろこしの穀粒を取り除く（脱穀する） / 穀物を脱穀する

We decided to cob the new garden wall before the rainy season.

私たちは雨季に入る前に、新しい庭の塀を土を練った塗りで塗り固めることに決めた。

意味（1）

To construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent.

Windows and other details can be cobbed into place, and niches and reliefs are easy to create.

意味（2）

(of growing corn) To have the heads mature into corncobs.

Ninety Day came to maturity very early and cobbed plentifully, but the grain proved shallow and lacking in meal.

意味（3）

To remove the kernels from a corncob.

Darning socks, knitting, fancy work, cooking, housework, cobbing corn.

意味（4）

To thresh.

The price paid for cobbing (separating the seed from the straw) and drawing the seed of red and white clover is from 3s. 6d. to 4s. 6d. the bushel of 5 stone of seed.

意味（5）

To break up ground with a hoe.

I have in this manner cobbed, with great success, lands that had formerly been in tillage, which would no longer bring corn because they were exhausted, either by consecutive crops or by the great quantity of weeks, which impoverished them: these became as good as my regularly cobbed lands.

cobs （ present singular third-person ）

cobbing （ participle present ）

cobbed （ participle past ）

cobbed （ past ）