Cob

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Cob may refer to:

• Cob (building), a building material consisting of clay, sand and straw
• a type of paddle, in full cobbing-board; also as a verb, cob(bing) meaning spank(ing)
• Any Horse of a small or short-legged, stout variety, such as the Welsh cob. See also Cob (horse)
• An adult male swan
• A bird of the gull family (Laridae)
• Maize, as in corn on the cob
• bread roll (Britain) a regional name for a bread roll. Often used in the North and Midlands.

COB as an acronym may refer to:

• Chairman of the board
• Republic of the Congo, via an obsolete country code
• Central Obrera Boliviana, a federation of labor unions in Bolivia
• Company of Biologists, a UK charity that publishes scientific journals
• Contingency Operating Base as US military term related to forward operating base
• Chip-on-board in surface-mount technology
• Close of Business, An acronym for the end of a business day. See also EOB, End Of Business
• Continuity of Business, an acronym sometimes used in conjunction with Disaster Recovery
• Chief of the boat, the most senior enlisted crewperson on United States Navy submarines
• A grain mix fed to horses and other livestock made up of Corn, Oats and Barley, (See equine nutrition)
• Country of Birth
• Center of balance
• The station code for Cooden Beach railway station, Bexhill-on-Sea, United Kingdom
• Children of Bodom, a Finnish metal band.
• Church of the Brethren, an USA denomination of German origin
• Conan O'Brien, American late night talk show host.

[edit] See also

• Cobb