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cob

/kob/US // kɒb //UK // (kɒb) //

钮扣,钮带,小屋,钮扣扣

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a corncob.
    • : a male swan.
    • : a short-legged, thick-set horse, often having a high gait and frequently used for driving.
    • : British. a mixture of clay and straw, used as a building material.
    • : British Dialect. a rounded mass or lump.
    • : a crude silver or gold Spanish-American coin of the 16th to 18th centuries, characteristically irregular in shape and bearing only a partial impression of the dies from which it was struck.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as incap

Examples

  • In 2011, during the final days of our last Iraq war I spent time there, on the former U.S. base called COB Speicher.

  • People scurry past me while eating freshly roasted corn on the cob.

  • Joseph tilted his chair back against the steel fence and kindled his cob pipe.

  • We had no molds, but Annie said the latest style in Natchez was to make a waxen rope by dipping, then wrap it round a corn-cob.

  • He watched the shepherd's face curiously from under his heavy brows, as he pulled at his cob pipe.

  • The seeds included vegetables, flowers, and Indian corn, the last named being in the cob.

  • My stern companion jogged along On a brown old cob both broad and strong.