cobbed

Removed from cob

Cobbed is the past tense of cob, a verb with several specialized meanings.

In construction, to cob means to build using cob—a mixture of clay, straw, and water formed into walls.

In agriculture, corn is cobbed when the kernels are removed from the cob, or conversely when ears are harvested still on the cob.

In British dialect, to cob someone is to throw something at them or to strike them: He cobbed a stone at the window.

corn

husk

Dry seed covering

  • kernelSeed or essential core
  • shuckProtective outer covering
  • maizeCob-bearing cereal crop

cornsilk · niblet · sweetcorn · corncob · husking · shucking · harvest · roasted · boiled · grilled

construction

clay

Moldable earth for ceramics

wattle · earthen · plaster · render · loam · thatched · cottage · vernacular · croft · Devon

equine

horse

Domesticated riding animal

pony · draft · compact · Welsh · Irish · hardy · muscular · broad · riding · carriage

Opposites
removal from cob

cobbedunhusked

Retaining outer covering

unshucked · intact · unprocessed · field corn

Family

cobbing, cobbly

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Rated G