Crossword clues for cobbles
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cob \Cob\, n. [Cf. AS. cop, copp, head, top, D. kop, G. kopf, kuppe, LL. cuppa cup (cf. E. brainpan), and also W. cob tuft, spider, cop, copa, top, summit, cobio to thump. Cf. Cop top, Cup, n.]
The top or head of anything. [Obs.]
--W. Gifford.-
A leader or chief; a conspicuous person, esp. a rich covetous person. [Obs.]
All cobbing country chuffs, which make their bellies and their bags their god, are called rich cobs.
--Nash. The axis on which the kernels of maize or indian corn grow. [U. S.]
(Zo["o]l.) A spider; perhaps from its shape; it being round like a head.
(Zo["o]l.) A young herring.
--B. Jonson.(Zo["o]l.) A fish; -- also called miller's thumb.
A short-legged and stout horse, esp. one used for the saddle. [Eng.]
(Zo["o]l.) A sea mew or gull; esp., the black-backed gull ( Larus marinus). [Written also cobb.]
A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone.
A cobnut; as, Kentish cobs. See Cobnut. [Eng.]
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Clay mixed with straw. [Prov. Eng.]
The poor cottager contenteth himself with cob for his walls, and thatch for his covering.
--R. Carew. A punishment consisting of blows inflictod on tho buttocas with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
--Wright.-
A Spanish coin formerly current in Ireland, worth abiut 4s. 6d. [Obs.]
--Wright.Cob coal, coal in rounded lumps from the size of an egg to that of a football; -- called also cobbles.
--Grose.Cob loaf, a crusty, uneven loaf, rounded at top.
--Wright.Cob money, a kind of rudely coined gold and silver money of Spanish South America in the eighteenth century. The coins were of the weight of the piece of eight, or one of its aliquot parts.
Wiktionary
Usage examples of "cobbles".
Skull helms, a few horned or antlered, made of every slope and every basin a spread of bone, as of stained, misaligned cobbles on some vast plaza.
The huge arch fifty paces to his left had just taken a hit on one corner of the pedestal, spraying broken masonry and burning pitch onto the cobbles and onto the rooftops of the scatter of tenements beside it.
Whatever had remained of the ford's laid cobbles in the river bed had been pushed either askew or deeper into the mud.
He then moved to one side and unslung the hide bag he carried, loosening the drawstring so that it unfolded onto the ground, revealing a half-dozen large obsidian cobbles collected on their passage across the old lava flow, and an assortment of different kinds of stones which had come from the shoreline beyond the Jaghut tower, along with bone-reeds and a brace of dead seagulls, both of which were still strapped to Toc's pack.
Selecting one of the obsidian cobbles, the T'lan Imass picked up one of the larger beach stones and with three swift blows detached three long, thin blades of the volcanic glass.
The inn to which they all once led no longer existed, having burned down a century or so ago, leaving a broad, uneven expanse of flagstones and cobbles that had, unaccountably, acquired the name of Wu's Closet.
Sun and absence of rain had preserved the turgid flow as dust-dulled black, deep enough to hide the hump of the cobbles lying underneath, the mortal river reaching down to the silty waters of the bay.
An ancient, almost forgotten alleyway, the cobbles heaved, cracked and covered in decades of rubbish.
The cobbles underfoot, though worn deep in places, were now mostly clothed in grasses.
Long after they were dead, the spell continued its relentless work, until the cobbles were ankle-deep in charred dust.
The cobbles were ankle-deep in bones, some charred, others red and raw with bits of tendon and flesh still clinging to them.
The cobbles of the street trembled beneath Shield Anvil Itkovian's boots and thunder shook the air.
The man's feet flew out from under him and he struck the cobbles with a meaty smack.
What would you have me do, paint sunsets on cobbles in Darujhistan for a living?
He spun in time to see Murillio's body pitching from the seat, to strike the cobbles with a bone-cracking impact.