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refurbish (iou) and cob(1) (iou)


refurbish (iou)



refurbish verb trans. E17.
[from RE- + FURBISH verb.]
Brighten up, clean up; renovate, restore, redecorate.
Anne Stevenson They bought and refurbished a large newspaper-and-tobacco shop.
refurbishment noun the action or process of refurbishing something, esp. a building L19.

cob(1) (iou)



cob noun1. LME.
[Origin unkn.]
I. With the notion 'big', 'stout'.
A great man, a leading man. Now dial. LME.
b. A wealthy man, a miser. M16-L17.
A male swan. Also cob-swan. LME.
A sturdy short-legged riding-horse. E19.
II. With the notion 'rounded'.
a. In full cob-nut. A large kind of hazelnut; (as cob-nut(s)), any of various children's Games using nuts. M16.
b. In full cob-loaf. A round-headed loaf. E17.
c. In full (now dial.) cob-coal. A large roundish piece of coal. E19.
d. A testicle. Usu. in pl. dial. E19.
e. A (baked apple) dumpling. dial. L19.
a. A small stack of hay or corn. dial. E17.
b. A bunch or knot of hair; a chignon. M19.
gen. A lump or heap of. dial. L19.
III. With the notion 'head', 'top'.
a. The head of a (red) herring. L16-M17.
b. In pl. Young herring. Scot. L19.
= CORN-COB 1. L17.
corn on the cob maize cooked and eaten attached to the cob.
The seeding head of wheat, clover, etc. dial. M19.
Comb.: cob coal: see sense 4c above; cob-iron (a) in pl. (Hist.), the irons supporting a spit; (b) an andiron; cob-loaf: see sense 4b above; cob-meal US corn-cobs ground down; cob-nut(s): see sense 4a above; cob pipe = CORN-COB 2.