Cob
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Cob or cobb may refer to:
Places
New Zealand
United Kingdom
- The Cobb, the harbour wall in Lyme Regis, England
- The Cob, a long seawall in Porthmadog, Wales
- The Cob, a seawall in Malltraeth, Anglesey, Wales
United States
- Cobb, California, a census-designated place
- Cobb, California, former name of Pine Grove, Lake County, California
- Cobb Mountain, California
- Cobb County, Georgia
- Cobb, Georgia, an unincorporated community in Sumter County
- Cobb Peak (Idaho)
- Cobb, Indiana, an unincorporated town
- Cobb, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
- Cobb River (Minnesota)
- Cobb, Oklahoma, an unincorporated community
- Fort Cobb, a US Army fort established in 1859 in what is now Caddo County, Oklahoma
- Cobb, Texas, an unincorporated community
- Cobb Peak (Utah), Tooele County, Utah
- Mount Cobb (Vermont), Washington County, Vermont
- Cobb, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
- Cobb, Wisconsin, a village
- Cobb Town, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
Elsewhere
- Mount Cobb (British Columbia), Canada
- Cobb Seamount, an underwater volcano 500 km (310 mi) west of Gray's Harbor, Washington
- Cobb hotspot, a volcanic hotspot located off the Oregon/Washington coast
Buildings
- Cobb Building (Wagoner, Oklahoma), on the National Register of Historic Places in Oklahoma
- Cobb Building (Seattle, Washington), on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington state
- Cobb House (disambiguation), various houses on the National Register of Historic Places
- Cobb Stadium, a multi-purpose stadium on the University of Miami campus in Coral Gables, Florida
- Kingsley Castle, also known as Castle Cob, a medieval motte in Kingsley, Cheshire, England
Roads
- Cobb Highway, New South Wales, Australia
- Cobb Parkway, Cobb County, Georgia
People
- Cobb (surname), people with the surname Cobb
- Cobbs, people with the surname Cobbs
- Cobb Rooney (1900–1973), American professional football running back
- Cob Stenham (born 1932), English business executive
- Conan O'Brien, American television personality
Animals
- Cob (horse), a small sturdy horse or large pony
- Cobb, today Cobb-Vantress, a brand of commercial broiler chicken
- Cob, an adult male swan
- Cob, a gull
- Cobb or coppe, an archaic English word for a spider, sometimes still used to refer to an orbweaver
Plants
- Cobb lettuce or Boston lettuce, a variety of lettuce
- Cob, the inner part of an ear of maize (corn) on which the kernels grow.
- Cob or cob nut, another name for a hazelnut
Food
- Cobb salad
- Cobb grill
- Cob, an English regional term for a bread roll
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, methods of directly mounting integrated circuits 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
- 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
Codes
- cob. ISO 639-3 code for the Chicomuceltec language of Mexico and Guatemala
- COB, an obsolete country code for Republic of the Congo
- COB, the station code for Cooden Beach railway station, Bexhill-on-Sea, United Kingdom
Other uses
- Cob (material), a building material for making walls using compacted clay, sand and straw
- Cob or cobbing board, a wooden instrument used for punishment: see Paddle (spanking)
- Cob, Spanish gold and silver coins that were irregularly shaped and crudely struck: see Spanish dollar
- Cobb Elevator, an orthopedic surgical instrument used to scrape bone
- Cobb Field, a baseball park in Billings, Montana
- CobB, a bacterial protein
- Cobb baronets, an extinct title in the Baronetage of England
- USCGC Cobb (WPG-181), a US Coast Guard cutter
- Cobb Divinity School, a former graduate school
- Cobb (film), a 1994 film about Ty Cobb
See also
- 1st Kentucky Artillery, also known as Cobb's Battery, a Confederate unit
- Cobb angle, a system of measuring spine deformities
- Cobb's Legion, a Confederate unit in the American Civil War
- Cobbs Creek, Delaware County, Pennsylvania
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