FinnHun Finnish-Hungarian-English on-line dictionary and thesaurus

n A male swan.

n A corncob.

n (context|English Midlands) A round, often crusty roll or loaf of bread.

n (short for|cobnut)

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

n A horse having a stout body and short legs.

n (context|East Anglia) A gull.

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

n (obsolete) One who is eminent, great, large, or rich.

n (obsolete) The head of a herring.

v (rfv-sense) To construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent.

v To beat with a flat instrument; to paddle.

v (context|Northern UK, possibly colloquial) To throw, chuck, lob.

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