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cob

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

cob

2, cobb
an archaic or dialect name for a gull esp the greater black-backed gull (Larus marinus)
Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

cob

[käb]
(mining engineering)
To chip away waste material from an ore, using hand hammers.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

cob

A mixture of straw, gravel, and unburnt clay; used esp. for walls.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

chip on board

A bare chip that is mounted directly onto the printed circuit board (PCB). After the wires are attached, a glob of epoxy or plastic is used to cover the chip and its connections. The tape automated bonding (TAB) process is used to place the chip on the board. See tape automated bonding.


Chip On Board
The bare chip is adhered and wire bonded to the board, and an epoxy is poured over it to insulate and protect it. For illustrative purposes only, this picture shows a clear epoxy. (Image courtesy of Joseph Fjelstad.)









Side View
This side view shows how the wires connect the chip to the printed circuit board (PCB). (Image courtesy of Joseph Fjelstad.)
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If you are looking for productive cultivars of these, Cosford Cob and Pearson's Prolific are both excellent cobnuts and Kentish Cob and Butler are good cultivars of the filbert.
Just nuts about hazel!
Pale hazelnuts or Kent cobnuts are delicious, or use shop-bought hazelnuts.
The PERFECT PUDDINGS; Two classic British desserts, each with a delicious twist
Other contenders include Leigh-on-Sea Cockles, London's jellied eel, Devon cream tea, Welsh cakes, Lancashire hotpot, Kentish cobnuts, Scottish haggis, Irish stew and Yorkshire pudding.
It's Teesside's favourite dish but should the TASTY: Chef Geoff Johns eats one of his parmos, right parmo be protected?
Cobnuts and filberts can be planted out at any time in a larger garden.
Notebook
It's not hard to do; a walk between farmers' belds will in season produce cobnuts, wild strawberries and mushrooms, and any Black Country canal's footpath will provide baskets of succulent blackberries and sweet apples, and wild rose hips make the most wonderful jellies and jam.
Go wild to cut the cost of food
Cultivated hazelnuts - called filberts (or cobnuts) - take their name from St Philibert's Day on August 20, the date by which hazelnuts were supposed to start ripening.
GREEN SCENE; GROW
The common hazelnut, Corylus avellana, is great value, providing cobnuts in September and decorative catkins in late winter.
Gardening: Go a little nutty and have a really cracking Christmas
Roast fillet of beef, wild mushroom pie, accompanied by potato gratin, cobnuts and Madeira will follow, with chocolate truffle dessert.
QUICKBITES
. Bryan Webb is owner/chef of Tyddyn Llan, Llandrillo, near Corwen RROOAASSTT PPLLUUMMSS WWIITTHH CCRRUUMMBBLLEE TTOOPPPPIINNGG ((ffoorr 44)) ingredients 12/18 victoria plums, depending on the size 6 tbsp caster sugar for the topping 2 tbsp plain flour 40g hard unsalted butter 1 tbsp brown sugar 4 tbsp oats 24 cobnuts or hazelnuts, chopped method.
How to make the most of plum harvest
"But it is an option for us; just picking a few cobnuts on a walk on a Sunday afternoon for example."
Top talk; GREEN SCENE
They planted apples, cherries and cobnuts (a cultivated variety of hazelnut) as part of the expansion of edible planting in West Kirby, as well as alder, willow and hornbeam for conservation value and to improve the look of the park.
Takinga leafoutof nature's richbook; Planting events across Merseyside for tree week
Pick grapes when ripe, as well as nuts (hazelnuts, cobnuts and filberts) when the husks begin to yellow.
THE GARDEN: GARDEN CUTTINGS
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