local. (See quots.)
[The mole or pier of Lyme Regis was originally constructed of cobble-stones heaped together; thence perhaps cob = cobble in sense 1.]
1605. Camden, Rem. (1636), 116. A forced harborow for ships, as the Cob, of Linne in Dorsetshire.
1688. Addr. fr. Lyme Regis, in Lond. Gaz., No. 2345/1. Your Majesties Princely Bounty towards the Maintenance of our Peer or Cob.
1743–5. R. Pococke, Trav. (Camden), 97. The famous cob or mole is a quarter of a mile to the south-west of the town [Lyme Regis].
1861. Smiles, Engineers, I. 283. The Cobb or harbour at Lyme Regis was so successfully put together [etc.].
