Cobs [noun]

Joseph tilted his chair back against the steel fence and kindled his cob pipe.

We had no molds, but Annie said the latest style in Natchez was to make a waxen rope by dipping, then wrap it round a corn-cob.

He watched the shepherd's face curiously from under his heavy brows, as he pulled at his cob pipe.

The seeds included vegetables, flowers, and Indian corn, the last named being in the cob.

My stern companion jogged along On a brown old cob both broad and strong.

The maize and cob-corn flourished remarkably well, and I generally managed to get three crops in the course of a year.

You must have seen a "cob" of Indian corn some time, with all the flat yellow grains nestling in a honeycomb of little cells.

They always ate the corn green in the cob, with a kind of vegetable “milk” that exudes from one of the palm-trees.

I gave Gibson the big ambling horse, ‘Badger,’ and we packed the big cob with a pair of water-bags that contained twenty gallons.

Gibson was now very sorry he had exchanged ‘Badger’ for the cob, as he found the latter very dull and heavy to get along.