cob-joe

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• joe-joe

  joey interjection, then a verb,now obsolete. Explained in quotations. 1855. W. Howitt, `Two Years ...

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• Joe

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• joe

  joey interjection, then a verb,now obsolete. Explained in quotations. 1855. W. Howitt, `Two Years ...

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• Cob

  ·noun A young herring. II. Cob ·noun Clay mixed with straw. III. Cob ·noun The top or head of anyt...

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• cob

  1) A Spanish dollar. 2) or cobbing A punishment used by the seamen for petty offences, or irregula...

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• cob

  1) a blow ; likewise to throw. Derb. Also a basket of wicker to carry on the arm ; a seed-cob, or se...

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• cob

  A young herring. Also, a sea-gull. Also, a sort of short break-water so called in our early statutes...

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• Joe Miller

  ·- A jest book; a stale jest; a worn-out joke. ...

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• Sea cob

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• cob-coals

  large pit-coals. N. ...

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• cob-ibon

  an andiron. S. ...

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• cob-irons

  brand-irons. ...

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• cob-loaf

  a crusty, deformed loaf. North. ...

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• cob-nut

  a game, which consists in pitching at a row of nuts piled up in heaps of four, that is, three at bot...

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• herring-cob

  A young herring. ...

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• Joe-Pye weed

  ·- A tall composite plant of the genus Eupatorium (E. purpureum), with purplish flowers, and whorled...

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• cob-web morning

  a misty morning. Norf. ...

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