Cob facts for kids

Cob or COB may mean:

Animals

• Cob (horse), a small sturdy horse or large pony
• Cob, an adult male swan
• Cob, a gull
• Cob, an old English word for a spider, sometimes still used for an orb-weaver spider

Parts of plants

• Corncob, the inside of an ear of maize (corn) on which the kernels grow
• Cob or cob nut, another name for a hazelnut

Materials and objects

• Cob (material), a building material for making walls using compacted clay, sand and straw
• Cob or cobbing board, a wooden instrument used for punishment
• Cob, Spanish gold and silver coins that were irregularly shaped and crudely struck: see Spanish dollar
• Cob (bread), a crusty bread roll shaped like a squashed ball, commonly used in the English Midlands

Geographical objects

• The Cob, a seawall in Porthmadog, Wales
• The Cob, a seawall in Malltraeth, Anglesey, Wales
• Kingsley Castle, also known as Castle Cob, a medieval motte in Kingsley, Cheshire, England

People

• Cob Stenham (born 1932), English business executive

Acronyms

• Bolivian Workers' Center, Central Obrera Boliviana in Spanish
• Brazilian Olympic Committee, Comitê Olímpico Brasileiro in Portuguese
• Brazilian Workers Confederation, Confederação Operária Brasileira in Portuguese
• Center of balance (disambiguation), multiple meanings
• Central Obrera Boliviana, a federation of labor unions in Bolivia
• Cercle Olympique de Bamako, a Malian football team
• Chairman of the board
• Chief of the Boat, the most senior enlisted crewperson on United States Navy submarines
• Children of Bodom, a Finnish metal band
• Chip on board, method of directly mounting semiconductors on printed circuit boards or substrates
• Church of the Brethren, an American religious denomination of German origin
• Church Office Building, headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Clerk, Clerk of the Board, of an organizational board or committee
• Close of Business, the formal end of the day in financial markets or offices
• College of The Bahamas, the national public institution of higher education
• Company of Biologists, a UK charity that publishes scientific journals
• Consistent Overhead Byte Stuffing, an algorithm
• Continent-ocean boundary, the boundary between oceanic and continental crust on a passive margin
• Contingency Operating Base, a US military term, a forward operating base
• Continuity of Business, an acronym sometimes used in conjunction with Disaster Recovery
• Corn, Oats and Barley, a grain mix fed to horses and other livestock: see equine nutrition
• Creature Object, a simple programming language for the game Creatures (artificial life program)
• Crew overboard, in boating: see Man overboard

Codes

• cob, the ISO 639-3 code for the Chicomuceltec language of Mexico and Guatemala
• COB, a country code for the Republic of the Congo that is no longer used
• COB, the station code for Cooden Beach railway station, Bexhill-on-Sea, United Kingdom

Related pages

• Cobb (disambiguation)
• Kob, an antelope