breeder vs cob

breeder

noun
  • A person who breeds plants or animals (professionally). 

  • A person who has had or who is capable of having children; a person who is focussed on the rearing of their own children. 

  • A heterosexual; i.e. one whose sexual intercourse can lead to breeding. 

  • A pattern that exhibits quadratic growth by generating multiple copies of a secondary pattern, each of which then generates multiple copies of a tertiary pattern. 

cob

noun
  • The seed-bearing head of a plant. 

  • A round, often crusty roll or loaf of bread. 

  • A cylinder with pins in it, encoding music to be played back mechanically by a barrel organ. 

  • A small fish, the miller's thumb. 

  • A male swan. 

  • Any of the gold and silver coins that were minted in the Spanish Empire and valued in reales or escudos, such as the piece of eight—especially those which were crudely struck and irregularly shaped. 

  • A person of mixed black and white ancestry, especially a griffe; a mulatto. 

  • A corncob. 

  • A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone. 

  • A horse having a stout body and short legs. 

  • A large fish, especially the kabeljou (variant spelling of kob). 

  • A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood. 

  • A gull, especially the black-backed gull (Larus marinus); also spelled cobb. 

  • A spider (cf. cobweb). 

  • A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe; also called cobb, rammed earth or pisé. 

verb
  • To chip off unwanted pieces of stone, so as to form a desired shape or improve the quality of mineral ore. 

  • To throw, chuck, lob. 

  • To beat with a flat instrument; to paddle. 

  • To remove the kernels from a corncob. 

  • To construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent. 

  • To break up ground with a hoe. 

  • To have the heads mature into corncobs. 

  • To thresh. 

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