cob
cob
englantimaissintähkä
urospuolinen joutsen, urosjoutsen
eräs ratsuhevostyyppi
Synonyymisanakirja
cob
joutsen, urosjoutsen, lokki, merilokki, Laurus, Lokit, suku lokit, Larus marinus, ravihevonen, tukeva lyhytjalkainen valjashevonen, syötävä pähkinä, hasselpähkinä, filbertinpähkinä, pähkinäpensaan pähkinä, pähkinä.
Englannin sanakirja
cob (englanti > suomi)
urosjoutsen (cf. uros|alt=uros-, joutsen)
cob englanniksi
A male swan.
1664, John Witherings, "The Orders, Laws, and Ancient Customs of Swans", in The Harleian Miscellany, volume VII (1810), page http://books.google.com/books?id=tAEHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA292 292:
1970, w:E. B. White|E. B. White, w:The Trumpet of the Swan|The Trumpet of the Swan, HarperCollins (2000), ISBN 0-06-028935-X, page 22:
2008, Nicole Helget, Swans, Creative Education, ISBN 978-1-58341-659-4, page 22:
A corncob.
1818, w:William Cobbett|William Cobbett, A Year’s Residence in the United States of America, part I, Clayton and Kingsland, page http://archive.org/stream/yearsresidencein00copage/18/mode/1up 18:
1849, w:Charles Lyell|Charles Lyell, A Second Visit to the United States of North America, volume II, Harper & Brothers, page http://books.google.com/books?id=GssQAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA64 64:
1994, w:Douglas Coupland|Douglas Coupland, w:Life After God|Life After God, Washington Square Press, ISBN 0-671-87434-9, page 80:
1877, Mackenzie E. C. Walcott, The Early Statutes of the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, Chichester, J. B. Nichols and Sons, page http://books.google.com/books?id=JitAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA38 38:
1958, w:Brendan Behan|Brendan Behan, w:Borstal Boy|Borstal Boy, Nonpareil (1982), ISBN 1-56792-105-1, page 86:
2005, Sheila Dunwell, "Progress or Less", in Poetry—Love It, Hate It, Read It and See, AuthorHouse, ISBN 1-4208-5247-7, page 85:
(short for)
1868, w:Charles Darwin|Charles Darwin, w:The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication|The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, volume I, John Murray, page http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=372&itemID=F877.1&viewtype=image 357:
1979, Jocasta Innes, The Country Kitchen, Frances Lincoln Limited (2003), ISBN 0-7112-2261-4, page 257:
2009, Carleen Madigan (ed.), The Essential Guide to Back Garden Self-Sufficiency, Timber Press (2010), page 145:
puhekieltä A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe; also called cobb, rammed earth or pisé.
1602, w:Richard Carew|Richard Carew, The Svrvey of Cornwall, new edition (1769), page http://books.google.com/books?id=8V0vAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA53 53:
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 http://books.google.com/books?id=cbkVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA323 323
2007 October 6, Cecelia Goodnow, "Thinking of Building a Cob Home?", The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, page E8:
A horse having a stout body and short legs.
1828, w:Winthrop 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 http://books.google.com/books?id=oTkaAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA544 543:
1841, w:Charles Dickens|Charles Dickens, s:Barnaby Rudge|Barnaby Rudge, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume II, Chapman and Hall, page http://www.archive.org/stream/scmasterhumphrey02dickrichpage/n72/mode/1up 289:
2012, w:Philippa Gregory|Philippa Gregory, Changeling, Simon Pulse, ISBN 978-1-4424-5344-9, page 36:
puhekieltä A gull, especially the black-backed gull (Larus marinus); also spelled cobb.
1668, w:Thomas Browne|Thomas Browne, "Notes on Certain Birds Found in Norfolk", in http://archive.org/details/nathistnorfolk00browuoft Notes and Letters on the Natural History of Norfolk, Jarrold & Sons (1902), pages http://books.google.com/books?id=JMQtAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA9v=twopage 8–9:
1820, w:Sir Richard Phillips|Sir Richard Phillips and Co. (tr.), Travels in Brazil (in New Voyages and Travels, volume III), translation of w:Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied|Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied, Reise nach Brasilien (1817), page http://books.google.com/books?id=TnYBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA155 21:
1895, A Son of the Marshes Denham Jordan, The Wild-Fowl and Sea-Fowl of Great Britain, Chapman and Hall, page http://books.google.com/books?id=bbYpAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA312 312:
Any of the gold and silver coins that were minted in the w:Spanish Empire|Spanish Empire and valued in reales or escudos, such as the piece of eight—especially those which were crudely struck and irregularly shaped.
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 http://books.google.com/books?id=VQtDAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA404 404:
1784, w:Thomas Sheridan (actor)|Thomas Sheridan, The Life of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin, volume I, pages http://books.google.com/books?id=ROxEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA8 7–8:
2006, Todd Cook, The Lost Coins of Early Americans: Still A Secret!, Xulon Press, ISBN 1-60034-429-1, page 90:
2008, w:Alvin Rabushka|Alvin Rabushka, Taxation in Colonial America, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0-691-13345-4, page 154:
A Spanish coin formerly current in Ireland, worth about four shillings and sixpence.
(rfquotek)
puhekieltä One who is eminent, great, large, or rich.
1583, w:Richard Stanyhurst|Richard Stanyhurst (tr.), The First Fovre Bookes of Virgils Æneis, Henrie Bynneman, page http://books.google.com/books?id=71oJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA86 86:
1583, w:Phillip Stubbes|Phillip Stubbes, The Second Part of the Anatomie of Abuses, N. Trübner & Co. (1882), page http://books.google.com/books?id=1BrPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA27 27:
1827, anonymous angler quoted in w:William Hone|William Hone, The Every-Day Book, volume II, part II, Hunt and Clarke, page http://books.google.com/books?id=UUZoCmiuKtwC&pg=PA77 769:
A spider.
A small fish, the miller's thumb.
A large fish, especially the kabeljou (variant spelling of kob).
1598, w:Ben Jonson|Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humour, in The Modern British Drama, 3rd volume, James Ballantyne and Co. (1811), page http://books.google.com/books?id=MCAAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA5 5:
1599, w:Thomas Nashe|Thomas Nashe, Lenten Stuffe, in The Harleian Miscellany, volume VI (1745), page http://books.google.com/books?id=ZZdCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA156 156:
1605, w:Thomas Dekker (writer)|Thomas Dekker, The Honest Whore, in The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker, 2nd volume, John Pearson (1873), page http://books.google.com/books?id=gLozAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA147 147:
The top or head of anything.
A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone.
A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
To construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent.
2004, Joe Kennedy, Building Without Borders: Sustainable Construction for the Global Village, page 178, ISBN 0865714819.
2009, Marian Keeler, Bill Burke, Fundamentals of Integrated Design for Sustainable Building, page 304, ISBN 0470152931.
2011, Gordon Salberg, "Paper houses: papercrete and fidobe", in The Art of Natural Building, page 174, ISBN 0865714339.
1803, w:Andrew Mitchell (Royal Navy officer)|Andrew Mitchell, "Extract from the Trial of the Mutineers on board the Bantry Bay Squadron", w:The Annual Register|The Annual Register, volume XLIV, R. Wilks, page http://books.google.com/books?id=PHd6TyT7p9IC&pg=PA556 556:
1863, Susan Boggs, interview transcribed in Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies, ed. w:John Wesley Blassingame|John Wesley Blassingame, Louisiana State University Press (1977), ISBN 0-8071-0184-2, page 419:
2007, w:Darius Rejali|Darius Rejali, Torture and Democracy, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0-691-11422-4, page 272:
1862, w:Philip Gilbert Hamerton|Philip Gilbert Hamerton (quoting a Lancashire shepherd), A Painter’s Camp in the Highlands, volume I, Macmillan and Co., page http://books.google.com/books?id=zCRBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA69 69:
1878, Robert Richardson, "How the Fight was Stopped", in The Young Cragsman, And Other Stories, William Oliphant and Co., page http://books.google.com/books?id=HQMCAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA72 72:
1895, John Trafford Clegg, "James Leach", in The Works of John Trafford Clegg, James Clegg, page http://books.google.com/books?id=ZgIMAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA287 287:
2004, "Ross Howard" (username), "http://groups.google.com/group/alt.usage.english/msg/d9e3863744158422 Re: Fox News on Terrorism", in alt.usage.english, Usenet:
To chip off unwanted pieces of stone, so as to form a desired shape or improve the quality of mineral ore.
1778, William Pryce, Mineralogia Cornubiensis, James Phillips, page http://books.google.com/books?id=l84QAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA327 327:
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 http://books.google.com/books?id=1__NAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA95 95:
1961, John Calvin Reed, Geology of the Mount McKinley quadrangle, Alaska, page 13, http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=no%3A2834784 OCLC 2834784.
2004, Lynne Mayers, Balmaidens, The Hypatia Trust, ISBN 1-872229-48-4, page 28:
2009, Kenneth A. Walsh, Beryllium Chemistry and Processing, page 25, ISBN 0871707217.
2011, Patricia Mercier, Crystal Skulls & the Enigma of Time, Appendix 2, ISBN 178028005X.
(abbreviation of)
1994, Anna M. Hill & David M. Lodge, "Diel Changes in Resource Demand: Competition and Predation in Species Replacement among Crayfishes", Ecology, volume 75, page 2122:
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 1-901502-96-1, page 71:
2008, Cécile Claret & Andrew J. Boulton, "Integrating Hydraulic Conductivity with Biogeochemical Gradients and Microbial Activity along River–Groundwater Exchange Zones in a Subtropical Stream", Hydrogeology Journal, volume 17, page 153:
(alternative form of)
puhekieltä victory