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cob

suomi-englanti sanakirja

cob englannista suomeksi

  1. urosjoutsen, joutsen

  2. pähkinä

  3. merilokki

  4. tukeva lyhytjalkainen valjashevonen

  1. urosjoutsen

  2. Substantiivi

cob englanniksi

  1. A corncob.

  2. 1818, Cobbett|William Cobbett, ''A Year’s Residence in the United States of America'', part I, Clayton and Kingsland, page 18:

    3. The grains, each of which is about the bulk of the largest marrowfat pea, are placed all round a stalk, which goes up the middle, and this little stalk, to which the seeds adhere, is called the Corn ''Cob''.

  3. {{quote-book|en|year=1849|author=Charles Lyell|title=A Second Visit to the United States of North America|volume=II|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=GssQAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA64|page=64|publisher=Harper & Brothers

  4. {{quote-book|en|year=1994|author=Douglas Coupland|title=Life After God|publisher=Washington Square Press,|isbn=0-671-87434-9|page=80

  5. The seed-bearing head of a plant.

  6. (quote-book)

  7. (clipping of)

  8. {{quote-text|en|year=1868|author=Charles Darwin|title=The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication|volume=I|publisher=John Murray|section=page 357

  9. {{quote-book|en|year=1979|author=Jocasta Innes|title=The Country Kitchen|page=257|publisher=Frances Lincoln Limited|year_published=2003|isbn=0-7112-2261-4

  10. {{quote-book|en|year=2009|editor=Carleen Madigan|title=The Essential Guide to Back Garden Self-Sufficiency|publisher=Timber Press|year_published=2010|page=145

  11. A male swan.

  12. {{quote-text|en|year=1664|author=John Witherings|chapter=The Orders, Laws, and Ancient Customs of Swans|title=The Harleian Miscellany|volume=VII|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=tAEHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA292|page=292|year_published=1810

  13. {{quote-book|en|year=1970|author=E. B. White|title=The Trumpet of the Swan|page=22|publisher=HarperCollins|year_published=2000|isbn=0-06-028935-X

  14. {{quote-book|en|year=2008|author=Nicole Helget|title=Swans|publisher=Creative Education,|isbn=978-1-58341-659-4|page=22

  15. A gull, especially the black-backed gull ((taxfmt)); also spelled cobb.

  16. 1668, Browne|Thomas Browne, "Notes on Certain Birds Found in Norfolk", in ''Notes and Letters on the Natural History of Norfolk'', Jarrold & Sons (1902), pages 8–9:

    17. Here is also the pica marina or seapye many sorts of Lari, seamewes & cobs.

  17. 1820, Richard Phillips|Sir Richard Phillips and Co. (tr.), ''Travels in Brazil'' (in ''New Voyages and Travels'', volume III), translation of Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied|Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied, ''Reise nach Brasilien'' (1817), page 21:

    18. We found here a species of cob, with a grey head, red beak and feet, very much resembling our ''larus ribibundus''….

  18. 1895, A Son of the Marshes Jordan, ''The Wild-Fowl and Sea-Fowl of Great Britain'', Chapman and Hall, page 312:

    19. The Raven has a very ancient look about him, as if he could tell a lot if he thought proper, but the Cob looks weird and uncanny, as if he was continually thinking over the creatures that he had seen go down to Davy’s locker.

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

  20. A round, often crusty roll or loaf of bread.

  21. {{quote-text|en|year=1877|author=Mackenzie E. C. Walcott|title=The Early Statutes of the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, Chichester|publisher=J. B. Nichols and Sons|section=page 38

  22. {{quote-book|en|year=1958|author=Brendan Behan|title=Borstal Boy|page=86|publisher=Nonpareil|year_published=1982|isbn=1-56792-105-1

  23. {{quote-book|en|year=2005|author=Sheila Dunwell|chapter=Progress or Less|title=Poetry—Love It, Hate It, Read It and See|page=85|publisher=AuthorHouse|isbn=1-4208-5247-7

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

  25. 1602, Carew|Richard Carew, ''The Svrvey of Cornwall'', new edition (1769), page 53:

    26. The poore Cotager contenteth himſelfe with Cob for his wals, and Thatch for his couering….

  26. 1889, T. N. Brushfield, "The Birthplace of Sir Walter Raleigh", in ''Reports and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art'', volume XXI, W. Brendon & Son, page 323

    27. The walls are of cob, the external ones being about 2 feet 8 inches thick, and rest on a stone foundation.

  27. {{quote-journal|en|date=October 6 2007|author=Cecelia Goodnow|title=Thinking of Building a Cob Home?|journal=The Seattle Post-Intelligencer|page=E8

  28. A horse having a stout body and short legs.

  29. 1828, Mackworth Praed|Winthrop Mackworth Praed, "A Letter of Advice", in ''The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal'', volume 23, part II, S. and H. Bentley, page 543:

    30. If he comes to you riding a cob…

  30. {{quote-text|en|year=1841|author=Charles Dickens|chapter=s:Barnaby Rudge|title=Master Humphrey’s Clock|volume=II|publisher=Chapman and Hall|section=page 289

  31. {{quote-book|en|year=2012|author=Philippa Gregory|title=Changeling|publisher=Simon Pulse,|isbn=978-1-4424-5344-9|page=36

  32. Any of the gold and silver coins that were minted in the Empire|Spanish Empire and valued in reales or escudos, such as the of eight—especially those which were crudely struck and irregularly shaped.

  33. 1701, Daniel Mac-Cay, testimony in the trial of Patrick Hurly, transcribed in ''A Complete Collection of State-Trials, and Proceedings upon High-Treason, and Other Crimes and Misdemeanours'', volume 5, 2nd edition (1730), page 404:

    34. …he put his Hand in his Pocket and pull’d out ſome Gold, ſome Broadpieces and a Gold Cob….

  34. {{quote-book|en|year=1784|author=Sheridan (actor)|Thomas Sheridan|title=The Life of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin|volume=I|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=ROxEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA8|pages=7–8

  35. {{quote-book|en|year=2006|author=Todd Cook|title=The Lost Coins of Early Americans: Still A Secret!|publisher=Xulon Press,|isbn=1-60034-429-1|page=90

  36. {{quote-book|en|year=2008|author=Alvin Rabushka|title=Taxation in Colonial America|publisher=Princeton University Press,|isbn=978-0-691-13345-4|page=154

  37. One who is eminent, great, large, or rich.

  38. 1583, Stanyhurst|Richard Stanyhurst (tr.), ''The First Fovre Bookes of Virgils Æneis'', Henrie Bynneman, page 86:

    39. I ſaw fleſh bluddie toe ſlauer, / When the cob had maunged the gobets foule garbaged haulfe quick.

  39. 1583, Stubbes|Phillip Stubbes, ''The Second Part of the Anatomie of Abuses'', N. Trübner & Co. (1882), page 27:

    40. But I would not haue a few rich cobs to get into their clowches almoſt whole countries, ſo as the poore can haue no releefe by them.

  40. 1827, anonymous angler quoted in Hone|William Hone, ''The Every-Day Book'', volume II, part II, Hunt and Clarke, page 769:

    41. For fishing and ''shuting'', he was the cob of all this country!

  41. A spider (cf. cobweb).

  42. A small fish, the miller's thumb.

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

  44. The head of a herring.

  45. 1598, Jonson|Ben Jonson, ''Every Man in His Humour'', in ''The Modern British Drama'', 3rd volume, James Ballantyne and Co. (1811), page 5:

    46. The first red herring that was broil’d in Adam and Eve’s kitchen, do I fetch my pedigree from, by the Harrot’s book. His Cob was my great-great-mighty-great grandfather.

  46. {{quote-text|en|year=1599|author=Thomas Nashe|chapter=Lenten Stuffe|title=The Harleian Miscellany|volume=VI|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=ZZdCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA156|page=156|year_published=1745

  47. 1605, Dekker (writer)|Thomas Dekker, ''The Honest Whore'', in ''The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker'', 2nd volume, John Pearson (1873), page 147:

    48. …he can come bragging hither with foure white Herrings (at’s taile) in blue Coates without roes in their bellies, but I may ſtarue ere he giue me ſo much as a cob.

  48. A tower or small castle on top of a hill.

  49. A thresher.

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

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

  52. {{quote-book|en|year=1885|author=Stanley Harris|title=The Coaching Age|location=London|publisher=R. Bentley and son|page=237

  53. {{quote-text|en|year=1902|title=Bulletin of the American Geographical Society|page=214

  54. {{quote-text|en|year=1912|author=James Rodway|title=Guiana: British, Dutch, and French|page=190

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

  56. {{quote-book|en|year=2004|author=Joe Kennedy|title=Building Without Borders: Sustainable Construction for the Global Village|page=178|isbn=0865714819

  57. {{quote-book|en|year=2009|author=Marian Keeler; Bill Burke|title=Fundamentals of Integrated Design for Sustainable Building|page=304|isbn=0470152931

  58. {{quote-book|en|year=2011|author=Gordon Salberg|chapter=Paper houses: papercrete and fidobe|title=The Art of Natural Building|page=174|isbn=0865714339

  59. To have the heads mature into corncobs.

  60. To remove the kernels from a corncob.

  61. (quote-book) David Littlejohn and Martin Munroe for their concessions, All the people who cobbed corn, Sara Perry for her steadfastness and warm smile in the coffee shop, (..)

  62. To thresh.

  63. To break up ground with a hoe.

  64. To beat with a flat instrument; to paddle.

  65. 1803, Mitchell (Royal Navy officer)|Andrew Mitchell, "Extract from the Trial of the Mutineers on board the Bantry Bay Squadron", ''Annual Register|The Annual Register'', volume XLIV, R. Wilks, page 556:

    66. (..) he pulled off his hat, and said he was going to cob him for breaking the rules and laws of the ship’s company.

  66. 1863, Susan Boggs, interview transcribed in ''Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies'', ed. Wesley Blassingame|John Wesley Blassingame, Louisiana State University Press (1977), (ISBN), page 419:

    67. (..) this jail keeper took a piece of board with holes bored through it (what you call a paddle) and cobbed him and cobbed him, and, then they took salt and washed him.

  67. {{quote-book|en|year=2007|author=Darius Rejali|title=Torture and Democracy|publisher=Princeton University Press,|isbn=978-0-691-11422-4|page=272

  68. To throw, chuck, lob.

  69. 1862, Gilbert Hamerton|Philip Gilbert Hamerton (quoting a Lancashire shepherd), ''A Painter’s Camp in the Highlands'', volume I, Macmillan and Co., page 69:

    70. Well, sir, I’m sure I’d be rid of it fast enough if I could ''naut'' cob it away like a stoan.

  70. 1878, Robert Richardson, "How the Fight was Stopped", in ''The Young Cragsman, And Other Stories'', William Oliphant and Co., page 72:

    71. Each had a stone in his grasp in an instant, and simultaneously they cobbed at Master Bunnie.

  71. {{quote-text|en|year=1895|author=John Trafford Clegg|chapter=James Leach|title=The Works of John Trafford Clegg|publisher=James Clegg|section=page 287

  72. {{quote-newsgroup|en|year=2004|author=Ross Howard|url=http://groups.google.com/group/alt.usage.english/msg/d9e3863744158422|title=Re: Fox News on Terrorism|newsgroup=alt.usage.english

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

  74. {{quote-text|en|year=1778|author=William Pryce|title=Mineralogia Cornubiensis|publisher=James Phillips|section=page 327

  75. (quote-book)

  76. 1894, A. G. Charleton, "The Choice of Coarse and Fine-Crushing Machinery and Processes of Ore Treatment", part IV, in ''Transactions of the Federated Institution of Mining Engineers'', volume VI (M. Walton Brown, ed.), Andrew Reid, Sons & Co., page 95:

    77. (..) it is not less ridiculous for instance to place a man, who may be perhaps an adept at spalling stones, in charge of a mill at the salary of a first-class foreman, than it would be to put the latter to cob ore at the wage of a labourer.

  77. {{quote-book|en|year=2004|author=Lynne Mayers|title=Balmaidens|publisher=The Hypatia Trust,|isbn=1-872229-48-4|page=28

  78. {{quote-book|en|year=2009|author=Kenneth A. Walsh|title=Beryllium Chemistry and Processing|page=25|isbn=0871707217

  79. {{quote-book|en|year=2011|author=Patricia Mercier|title=Crystal Skulls & the Enigma of Time|publisher=Appendix 2|isbn=178028005X

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

  81. (quote-text)

  82. (abbreviation of)

  83. {{quote-text|en|year=1994|author=Anna M. Hill; David M. Lodge|chapter=Diel Changes in Resource Demand: Competition and Predation in Species Replacement among Crayfishes|title=Ecology|volume=75|page=2122

  84. 2002, Christian Vogt & Wolfhard Symader, "Evaluation of Small Rivers by Combining Biological Sampling with a Structure Analysis of River Beds", in Fiona J. Dyer, Martin C. Thomas, & Jon M. Olley (eds.), ''The Structure, Function and Management Implications of Fluvial Sedimentary Systems'', International Association of Hydrological Sciences, (ISBN), page 71:

    85. List and short characteristics of sampling sites (br = bedrock, cob = cobble, gra = gravel, peb = pebble, sa = sand).

  85. {{quote-text|en|year=2008|author=Cécile Claret; Andrew J. Boulton|chapter=Integrating Hydraulic Conductivity with Biogeochemical Gradients and Microbial Activity along River–Groundwater Exchange Zones in a Subtropical Stream|title=Hydrogeology Journal|volume=17|page=153

  86. (alternative form of)

  87. kob ((taxlink), a species of African antelope related to the waterbuck)

  88. victory

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