Cob

Cob or cobb may refer to:

Places

New Zealand

• Cobb River (New Zealand)
• Cobb Reservoir
• Cobb Power Station

United Kingdom

• The Cobb, the harbour wall in Lyme Regis, England
• The Cob, a long seawall in Porthmadog, Wales
• The Cob, a seawall in Malltraeth, Anglesey, Wales

United States

• Cobb, California, a census-designated place
• Cobb, California, former name of Pine Grove, Lake County, California
• Cobb Mountain, California
• Cobb County, Georgia
• Cobb, Georgia, an unincorporated community in Sumter County
• Cobb Peak (Idaho)
• Cobb, Indiana, an unincorporated town
• Cobb, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
• Cobb River (Minnesota)
• Cobb, Oklahoma, an unincorporated community
• Fort Cobb, a US Army fort established in 1859 in what is now Caddo County, Oklahoma
• Cobb, Texas, an unincorporated community
• Cobb Peak (Utah), Tooele County, Utah
• Mount Cobb (Vermont), Washington County, Vermont
• Cobb, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
• Cobb, Wisconsin, a village
• Cobb Town, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community

Elsewhere

• Mount Cobb (British Columbia), Canada
• Cobb Seamount, an underwater volcano 500 km (310 mi) west of Gray's Harbor, Washington
• Cobb hotspot, a volcanic hotspot located off the Oregon/Washington coast

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

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

Food

• Cobb salad
• Cobb grill
• Cob, an English regional term for a bread roll

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
• 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
• 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

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 Field, a baseball park in Billings, Montana
• 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)

See also

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