cobful
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cobful (plural cobfuls)
- Enough to fill a cob.
- 1912, Commercial West - Volume 21, page 10:
- Give a man a cobful of tobacco and a dry, warm spot to squat on, and if you can coax him from it to a hoe or a grub-hook in the open, ...
- 1989, Michael Webster, Home farm: one family's life on the land, page 83:
- It is not infertile: each plant sets a cobful of seeds without difficulty, lining them up in neat rows.