Kob
Source : Wright, Joseph English Dialect Dictionary web : https://eddonline4-proj.uibk.ac.at/edd/main.html
COB, COBB, v.2 and sb.6 Var. dial. uses in Sc. Irel. and Eng. [kob.]
- v. To strike, thump; to beat or strike on the posteriors with anything flat or with the knee. ...
- To thresh or beat out seed, esp. clover-seed. Nrf.1 Suf. (F.H.); Rainbird Agric. (1819) 290, ed. 1849. Ess. He has applied it to cobbing white clover with great success, Young Agric. (1807) I, ed. 1813.
- To pull the hair or ears. N.Cy.1 Nhb. Their ears properly cobbed, that is, sensibly lengthened, Richardson Borderer's Table-bk. (1846) VII. 377; Nhb.1 They got their lugs properly cobbed. Dur.1 Applied to the pulling of the hair of a boy, as a punishment by his schoolfellows. During the punishment the castigators, each holding the culprit by a lock of his hair, are compelled to stand on one leg while some one pronounces a sort of proclamation, in verse.... The ceremony concludes by each boy spitting over the head of the offender, who upon whistling is entitled to be released. w.Yks. Ah'll cob you in t'mornin'. (F.P.T.). ne.Lan.1 Shr.2 The penalty consists in having the hair pulled whilst the offender whistles, counts ten, and touches wood.
