Cab vs. Cob — What's the Difference?

A taxi

A corncob

The driver's compartment in a lorry, bus, or train.

A male swan.

A cabinet containing a speaker or speakers for a guitar amplifier.

A thickset, stocky, short-legged horse.

Travel in a taxi

A small lump or mass, as of coal.

A taxicab.

A mixture of clay and straw used as a building material.

The covered compartment of a heavy vehicle or machine, such as a truck or locomotive, in which the operator or driver sits.

A corncob.

A one-horse vehicle for public hire.

The seed-bearing head of a plant.

An ancient Hebrew unit of measure equal to about 2 liters (2.1 quarts).

Clipping of cobnut

To ride or travel in a taxicab

A male swan.

To drive a taxicab

(East Anglia) A gull, especially the black-backed gull (Larus marinus); also spelled cobb.

Compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver.

A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone.

Shelter at the top of an air traffic control tower or fire lookout tower.

(Midlands) A round, often crusty roll or loaf of bread.

Any of several four-wheeled carriages; a cabriolet.

(uncountable) A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe; also called cobb, rammed earth or pisé.

Synonym of taxi

A horse having a stout body and short legs.

A former Hebrew unit of volume, about equal to 1.3{{nbsp}}L as a dry measure or 1.25{{nbsp}}L as a liquid measure.

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.

An arcade cabinet, the unit in which a video game is housed in a gaming arcade.

(obsolete) One who is eminent, great, large, or rich.

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A spider (cf. cobweb).

To travel by taxicab.

A small fish, the miller's thumb.

A kind of close carriage with two or four wheels, usually a public vehicle.

A large fish, especially the kabeljou (variant spelling of kob).

The covered part of a locomotive, in which the engineer has his station.

(obsolete) The head of a herring.

A Hebrew dry measure, containing a little over two (2.37) pints.

(obsolete) A tower or small castle on top of a hill.

A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits

(obsolete) A thresher.

Small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and a folding hood

A cylinder with pins in it, encoding music to be played back mechanically by a barrel organ.

A car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money

A person of mixed black and white ancestry, especially a griffe; a mulatto.

A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.

To construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent.

(of growing corn) To have the heads mature into corncobs.

To remove the kernels from a corncob.

To thresh.

To break up ground with a hoe.

To beat with a flat instrument; to paddle.

To throw, chuck, lob.

To chip off unwanted pieces of stone, so as to form a desired shape or improve the quality of mineral ore.

The top or head of anything.

A leader or chief; a conspicuous person, esp. a rich covetous person.

The axis on which the kernels of maize or indian corn grow.

A spider; perhaps from its shape; it being round like a head.

A young herring.

A fish; - also called miller's thumb.

A short-legged and stout horse, esp. one used for the saddle.

A sea mew or gull; esp., the black-backed gull (Larus marinus).

A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone.

A cobnut; as, Kentish cobs. See Cobnut.

Clay mixed with straw.

A punishment consisting of blows inflictod on tho buttocas with a strap or a flat piece of wood.

A Spanish coin formerly current in Ireland, worth abiut 4s. 6d.

To strike

To break into small pieces, as ore, so as to sort out its better portions.

To punish by striking on the buttocks with a strap, a flat piece of wood, or the like.

Nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus

Stocky short-legged harness horse

White gull having a black back and wings

Adult male swan