Cob

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Cob or cobb may refer to:

Places

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 and fictional characters

• Cobb (surname), a list of people and fictional characters 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
• Corncob, the inner part of an ear of maize (corn) on which the kernels grow
• Cob or cob nut, another name for a hazelnut

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
• Electronic_packaging#Glop-top, 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
• Clerk, Clerk of the Board, of an organizational board or committee
• 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: see Man overboard

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, 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
  • Cobb (soundtrack)
• Cobb Field, a baseball park in Billings, Montana
• Cobb & Co, the name of many Australian coaching businesses
• Cobb & Co. (New Zealand), a 19th century operator of a fleet of stagecoaches
• Cobb salad, a chopped salad named for Robert Howard Cobb
• A type of crusty bread roll, commonly used in the English Midlands: see List of bread rolls

See also

• Cobb's Legion, a Confederate unit in the American Civil War
• 1st Kentucky Artillery, also known as Cobb's Battery, a Confederate unit
• Cobb angle, a system of measuring spine deformities
• Cobbs Creek, Delaware County, Pennsylvania
• Kob, an antelope