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cobbing
[ kob-ing ]
noun
- old refractory material removed from furnaces.
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After cobbing, great care is required in sorting the ore into the respective grades of Nos. 1, 2, and 3.
At Looe, and other districts of East Cornwall, it was enforced by spitting at or “cobbing” the offender.
Sharpe, you are small,” he exclaimed; “but cobbing was invented to make midshipmen grow, and I intend to make you grow.
Cobbing, a punishment inflicted by sailors and soldiers among themselves.
The offender was struck a certain number of times on the breech with a flat piece of wood called the cobbing-board.
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