kob

American  

[kob, kohb] / kɒb, koʊb /

noun

1. an African antelope, Kobus kob, related to the puku and the lechwe.

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kob British  

/ kɒb /

noun

1. any of several species of African antelope, esp Kobus kob: similar to waterbucks

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Etymology

Origin of kob

1765–75; said to be < Wolof koba

Example Sentences

The cob, sometimes spelled kob, however, is only an antelope, although a graceful and handsome one.

From In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country by McCutcheon, John T.

The kob kobs are wooden clogs made to raise the feet out of the mud and water, having a little strap over the toe to keep it on the foot.

From The Women of the Arabs by Robinson, Charles S. (Charles Seymour)

Cob, kob, n. a head of maize: a short-legged strong horse for heavy weights: a male swan—also Cob′-swan.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

There are new bright red shoes, and old tattered shoes, and kob kobs, and black shoes, and sometimes yellow shoes.

From The Women of the Arabs by Robinson, Charles S. (Charles Seymour)

From where I stood looking at them hartebeest, kob, waterbuck, and oribi were also all in sight.

From A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open by Roosevelt, Theodore