Kob vs. Cob — What's the Difference?

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Kob
The kob (Kobus kob) is an antelope found across Central Africa and parts of West Africa and East Africa. Together with the closely related reedbucks, waterbucks, lechwe, Nile lechwe, and puku, it forms the Reduncinae tribe.
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Cob
A corncob
Corn on the cob.
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Kob
An orange-brown African antelope (Kobus kob) whose habitat extends from Senegal eastward to Ethiopia, having lyre-shaped horns in the male.
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Cob
A male swan.
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Kob
An African antelope closely related to the lechwe and the waterbuck, Kobus kob.
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Cob
A thickset, stocky, short-legged horse.
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Kob
Any of several large game fish of the family Sciaenidae, especially the kabeljou (dusky kob or great kob or perhaps the smaller squaretail kob.
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Cob
A small lump or mass, as of coal.
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Kob
Any one of several species of African antelopes of the genus Kobus, esp. the species Kobus sing-sing.
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Cob
A mixture of clay and straw used as a building material.
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Kob
An orange-brown antelope of southeast Africa
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Cob
A corncob.
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Cob
The seed-bearing head of a plant.
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Cob
Clipping of cobnut
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Cob
A male swan.
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Cob
(East Anglia) A gull, especially the black-backed gull (Larus marinus); also spelled cobb.
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Cob
A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone.
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Cob
(Midlands) A round, often crusty roll or loaf of bread.
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Cob
(uncountable) A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe; also called cobb, rammed earth or pisé.
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Cob
A horse having a stout body and short legs.
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Cob
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.
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Cob
(obsolete) One who is eminent, great, large, or rich.
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Cob
A spider (cf. cobweb).
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Cob
A small fish, the miller's thumb.
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Cob
A large fish, especially the kabeljou (variant spelling of kob).
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Cob
(obsolete) The head of a herring.
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Cob
(obsolete) A tower or small castle on top of a hill.
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Cob
(obsolete) A thresher.
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Cob
A cylinder with pins in it, encoding music to be played back mechanically by a barrel organ.
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Cob
A person of mixed black and white ancestry, especially a griffe; a mulatto.
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Cob
A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
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Cob
To construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent.
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Cob
(of growing corn) To have the heads mature into corncobs.
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Cob
To remove the kernels from a corncob.
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Cob
To thresh.
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Cob
To break up ground with a hoe.
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Cob
To beat with a flat instrument; to paddle.
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Cob
To throw, chuck, lob.
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Cob
To chip off unwanted pieces of stone, so as to form a desired shape or improve the quality of mineral ore.
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Cob
The top or head of anything.
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Cob
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.
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Cob
The axis on which the kernels of maize or indian corn grow.
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Cob
A spider; perhaps from its shape; it being round like a head.
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Cob
A young herring.
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Cob
A fish; - also called miller's thumb.
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Cob
A short-legged and stout horse, esp. one used for the saddle.
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Cob
A sea mew or gull; esp., the black-backed gull (Larus marinus).
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Cob
A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone.
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Cob
A cobnut; as, Kentish cobs. See Cobnut.
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Cob
Clay mixed with straw.
The poor cottager contenteth himself with cob for his walls, and thatch for his covering.
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Cob
A punishment consisting of blows inflictod on tho buttocas with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
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Cob
A Spanish coin formerly current in Ireland, worth abiut 4s. 6d.
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Cob
To strike
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Cob
To break into small pieces, as ore, so as to sort out its better portions.
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Cob
To punish by striking on the buttocks with a strap, a flat piece of wood, or the like.
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Cob
Nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus
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Cob
Stocky short-legged harness horse
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Cob
White gull having a black back and wings
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Cob
Adult male swan
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