Cab vs. Cob
Cabnoun
A taxi; a taxicab.
Cobnoun
A male swan.
Cabnoun
Compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver
Cobnoun
A corncob.
Cabnoun
Shelter at the top of an air traffic control tower or fire lookout tower
Cobnoun
(Midlands) A round, often crusty roll or loaf of bread.
Cabnoun
Any of several four-wheeled carriages; a cabriolet
Cobnoun
(uncountable) A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe; also called cobb, rammed earth or pisé.
Cabnoun
A former Hebrew unit of volume, about equal to 1.3{{nbsp}}L as a dry measure or 1¼{{nbsp}}L as a liquid measure.
Cobnoun
A horse having a stout body and short legs.
Cabnoun
An arcade cabinet, the unit in which a video game is housed in a gaming arcade.
Cobnoun
(East Anglia) A gull, especially the black-backed gull (Larus marinus); also spelled cobb.
Cabverb
To travel by taxicab.
Cobnoun
Any of the gold and silver coins that were minted in the Spanish Empire and valued in reales or escudos, such as the piece of eight—especially those which were crudely struck and irregularly shaped.
Cabnoun
A kind of close carriage with two or four wheels, usually a public vehicle.
Cobnoun
A Spanish coin formerly current in Ireland, worth about four shillings and sixpence.
Cabnoun
The covered part of a locomotive, in which the engineer has his station.
Cobnoun
(obsolete) One who is eminent, great, large, or rich.
Cabnoun
A Hebrew dry measure, containing a little over two (2.37) pints.
Cobnoun
A spider.
Cabnoun
a compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits
Cobnoun
A small fish, the miller's thumb.
Cabnoun
small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and a folding hood
Cobnoun
A large fish, especially the kabeljou (variant spelling of kob).
Cabnoun
a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
Cobnoun
(obsolete) The head of a herring.
Cabnoun
a taxi
‘she hailed a cab’; ‘cab drivers’;
Cobnoun
The top or head of anything.
Cabnoun
a horse-drawn vehicle for public hire.
Cobnoun
A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone.
Cabnoun
the driver's compartment in a lorry, bus, or train.
Cobnoun
A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
Cabnoun
a cabinet containing a speaker or speakers for a guitar amplifier.
Cobnoun
A cylinder with pins in it, encoding music to be played back mechanically by a barrel organ.
Cabverb
travel in a taxi
‘Roger cabbed home’;
Cobverb
To construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent.
Cobverb
Of growing corn, to have the heads mature into corncobs.
Cobverb
To beat with a flat instrument; to paddle.
Cobverb
(Northern UK, possibly colloquial) To throw, chuck, lob.
Cobverb
To chip off unwanted pieces of stone, so as to form a desired shape or improve the quality of mineral ore.
Cobnoun
The top or head of anything.
Cobnoun
A leader or chief; a conspicuous person, esp. a rich covetous person.
‘All cobbing country chuffs, which make their bellies and their bags their god, are called rich cobs.’;
Cobnoun
The axis on which the kernels of maize or indian corn grow.
Cobnoun
A spider; perhaps from its shape; it being round like a head.
Cobnoun
A young herring.
Cobnoun
A fish; - also called miller's thumb.
Cobnoun
A short-legged and stout horse, esp. one used for the saddle.
Cobnoun
A sea mew or gull; esp., the black-backed gull (Larus marinus).
Cobnoun
A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone.
Cobnoun
A cobnut; as, Kentish cobs. See Cobnut.
Cobnoun
Clay mixed with straw.
‘The poor cottager contenteth himself with cob for his walls, and thatch for his covering.’;
Cobnoun
A punishment consisting of blows inflictod on tho buttocas with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
Cobnoun
A Spanish coin formerly current in Ireland, worth abiut 4s. 6d.
Cobverb
To strike
Cobverb
To break into small pieces, as ore, so as to sort out its better portions.
Cobverb
To punish by striking on the buttocks with a strap, a flat piece of wood, or the like.
Cobnoun
nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus
Cobnoun
stocky short-legged harness horse
Cobnoun
white gull having a black back and wings
Cobnoun
adult male swan
