Cob
Appearance
Cob or COB may mean:
Animals
[change | change source]- Cob (horse), a small sturdy horse or large pony
- Cob, an adult male swan
- Cob, a gull
- Cob, an old English word for a spider, sometimes still used for an orb-weaver spider
Parts of plants
[change | change source]- Corncob, the inside of an ear of maize (corn) on which the kernels grow
- Cob or cob nut, another name for a hazelnut
Materials and objects
[change | change source]- Cob (material), a building material for making walls using compacted clay, sand and straw
- Cob or cobbing board, a wooden instrument used for punishment: see Paddle (spanking)
- Cob, Spanish gold and silver coins that were irregularly shaped and crudely struck: see Spanish dollar
- Cob (bread), a crusty bread roll shaped like a squashed ball, commonly used in the English Midlands
Geographical objects
[change | change source]- The Cob, a seawall in Porthmadog, Wales
- The Cob, a seawall in Malltraeth, Anglesey, Wales
- Kingsley Castle, also known as Castle Cob, a medieval motte in Kingsley, Cheshire, England
People
[change | change source]- Cob Stenham (born 1932), English business executive
Acronyms
[change | change source]- Bolivian Workers' Center, Central Obrera Boliviana in Spanish
- Brazilian Olympic Committee, Comitê Olímpico Brasileiro in Portuguese
- Brazilian Workers Confederation, Confederação Operária Brasileira in Portuguese
- Center of balance (disambiguation), multiple meanings
- Central Obrera Boliviana, a federation of labor unions in Bolivia
- Cercle Olympique de Bamako, a Malian football team
- Chairman of the board
- Chief of the Boat, the most senior enlisted crewperson on United States Navy submarines
- Children of Bodom, a Finnish metal band
- Chip on board, method of directly mounting semiconductors on printed circuit boards or substrates
- Church of the Brethren, an American religious denomination of German origin
- Church Office Building, headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Clerk, Clerk of the Board, of an organizational board or committee
- Close of Business, the formal end of the day in financial markets or offices
- College of The Bahamas, the national public institution of higher education
- Company of Biologists, a UK charity that publishes scientific journals
- Consistent Overhead Byte Stuffing, an algorithm
- Continent-ocean boundary, the boundary between oceanic and continental crust on a passive margin
- Contingency Operating Base, a US military term, a forward operating base
- Continuity of Business, an acronym sometimes used in conjunction with Disaster Recovery
- Corn, Oats and Barley, a grain mix fed to horses and other livestock: see equine nutrition
- Creature Object, a simple programming language for the game Creatures (artificial life program)
- Crew overboard, in boating: see Man overboard
Codes
[change | change source]- cob, the ISO 639-3 code for the Chicomuceltec language of Mexico and Guatemala
- COB, a country code for the Republic of the Congo that is no longer used
- COB, the station code for Cooden Beach railway station, Bexhill-on-Sea, United Kingdom
Related pages
[change | change source]- Cobb (disambiguation)
- Kob, an antelope
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