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cob

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cob1
1. a male swan
2. a thickset short-legged type of riding and draught horse

cob2, cobb
an archaic or dialect name for a gull esp the greater black-backed gull (Larus marinus)

cob [käb]
(mining engineering)
To chip away waste material from an ore, using hand hammers.

cob
A mixture of straw, gravel, and unburnt clay; used esp. for walls.


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The cob was a strong, well-made, good-tempered horse, and we sometimes had a little chat in the paddock, but of course I could not be so intimate with him as with Ginger, who stood in the same stable.
I was outwitted by my first victim, a thin old gentleman riding a cob at night on the Geelong road.
I'll go and have a look at them," he said, getting on to the little bay cob, Kolpik, who was let up by the coachman.
 
 
 
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