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cobbing

/kob-ing/US // ˈkɒb ɪŋ //

敲敲打打,敲打,敲击,敲击声

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Metallurgy.

    • : old refractory material removed from furnaces.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as incap

Examples

  • After cobbing, great care is required in sorting the ore into the respective grades of Nos. 1, 2, and 3.

  • At Looe, and other districts of East Cornwall, it was enforced by spitting at or “cobbing” the offender.

  • Sharpe, you are small,” he exclaimed; “but cobbing was invented to make midshipmen grow, and I intend to make you grow.

  • Cobbing, a punishment inflicted by sailors and soldiers among themselves.

  • The offender was struck a certain number of times on the breech with a flat piece of wood called the cobbing-board.