The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cob \Cob\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cobbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Cobbing.]
To strike [Prov. Eng.]
--Halliwell.(Mining) To break into small pieces, as ore, so as to sort out its better portions.
--Raymond.(Naut.) To punish by striking on the buttocks with a strap, a flat piece of wood, or the like.
Wiktionary
1 Broken, cut or trimmed into pieces of a convenient size, or formed into small blocks; cobbled. 2 Remaining on, or taken from the cob, ''(as in "cobbed corn")''. 3 Built of mud cobbles, and sealed with mud or an artificial equivalent. 4 crude or roughly assembled; put together in an improvised way, ''(as in "cobbed together")''. 5 Struck with misfortune ''(possibly a contraction of clobbered)'' 6 (context dialect English) Odd, peculiar, strange. ''(Comparative can be '''cobb'der''' and superlative can be '''cobb'dest''')''. v
(en-pastcob)
Usage examples of "cobbed".
He cobbed the throttle to zone three afterburner, flew less than two hundred feet above the Tupolev-22M bomber, waited until he was clear, did two barrel rolls right in front of the Backfire's cockpit windscreen, then started a fast climb.
Annie swore under her breath, then suddenly cobbed the throttles to full afterburner.
The score or so of right seamen had been at their stations ten minutes - Pullings and the bosun on the fo'c'sle, the gunner and his mates at the maintack, the carpenter at the foresheet, the Marines at the mainsheet, the maintopmen and the after-guard on the quarterdeck, at the braces - before the last desperate half-clothed bewildered landsman was hunted up, shoved and beaten and cobbed into his place.
Jack had cobbed him repeatedly in the midshipmen's berth of Old Ironsides: and would do so again.
The score or so of right seamen had been at their stations ten minutes - Pullings and the bosun on the fo’c’sle, the gunner and his mates at the maintack, the carpenter at the foresheet, the Marines at the mainsheet, the maintopmen and the after-guard on the quarterdeck, at the braces - before the last desperate half-clothed bewildered landsman was hunted up, shoved and beaten and cobbed into his place.
Jack had cobbed him repeatedly in the midshipmen’s berth of Old Ironsides: and would do so again.