corb

See also: còrb

English

Etymology

From Latin corbis (“basket”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔː(ɹ)b/

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Noun

corb (plural corbs)

1. (archaic) A basket, for example one used in coal mines, etc.

   Synonym: corf

   • 1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, […], →OCLC:

     He said no more, but signed to me to lift a heavy wooden corb with an iron loop across it, and sunk in a little pit of earth, a yard or so from the mouth of the shaft. I raised it, and by his direction dropped it into the throat of the shaft, where it hung and shook from a great cross-beam laid at the level of the earth. A very stout thick rope was fastened to the handle of the corb, and ran across a pulley hanging from the centre of the beam, and thence out of sight in the nether places.

   • 1863, Henry Mayhew, The Boyhood of Martin Luther:

     I […] carried my corb of fagots home on my back, while my two youngsters had each their bundle on their little shoulders too

   • 1913, Gilbert Murray (translator), Euripides (original), Electra:

     Some bore amain
     The death-vat, some the corbs of hallowed grain

2. (obsolete, architecture) a corbel (ornament in a building).
3. A brown meagre (Sciaena umbra)

References

• “corb”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• CBOR, COBR, RBOC