Cob

Cob or COB may refer to:

Animals

 * Cob (horse), a small sturdy horse or large pony
 * Cob, an adult male swan
 * Cob, a gull or seabird of the genus Larus or of the family Laridae

Parts of plants

 * Corncob, the core or inner part of an ear of maize (corn) on which the kernels grow
 * Cob or cob nut, another name for a hazelnut

Materials and objects

 * 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
 * Cob, a crusty bread roll shaped like a squashed ball, commonly used in the English Midlands: see List of bread rolls

Geographical objects

 * The Cob, a seawall in Porthmadog, Wales
 * The Cob, a seawall in Malltraeth, Anglesey, Wales
 * Kingsley Castle, also known as Castle Cob, a medieval motte in Kingsley, Cheshire, England

People

 * Cob Stenham (born 1932), English business executive

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
 * 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, a method of directly mounting semiconductors 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
 * Clerk of the Board, of an organizational board or committee
 * Clive's Original Band or C.O.B., an English folk band headed by Clive Palmer
 * Close of Business, the formal end of the day in financial markets or offices
 * Coburg railway station, Melbourne
 * College of The Bahamas, the national public institution of higher education
 * Company of Biologists, a UK charity that publishes scientific journals
 * 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: see Man overboard

Codes

 * cob, the ISO 639-3 code for the Chicomuceltec language of Mexico and Guatemala
 * COB, an obsolete country code for Republic of the Congo
 * Cooden Beach railway station, a railway station in Sussex, England