Definitions for cobbing

cobbing cob·bing

Spelling: [kob-ing]
IPA: /ˈkɒb ɪŋ/

Cobbing is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 92 anagrams from letters in cobbing (bbcgino).

Definitions for cobbing

noun

  1. old refractory material removed from furnaces.

Origin of cobbing

1760-70; cob (v.) to break up, special use of cob + -ing1

Examples for cobbing

At Looe, and other districts of East Cornwall, it was enforced by spitting at or “cobbing” the offender.

He was particularly set against me, as I had been ringleader in the cobbing.

Sharpe, you are small,” he exclaimed; “but cobbing was invented to make midshipmen grow, and I intend to make you grow.

After cobbing, great care is required in sorting the ore into the respective grades of Nos. 1, 2, and 3.

cobbing, a punishment inflicted by sailors and soldiers among themselves.

If they caught him he was to receive a cobbing; if he escaped he was to give them one, if he could.

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