U.S. [COB sb.1 11.] The elongated and somewhat woody receptacle to which the grains are attached in the ear of maize.
1817–8. Cobbett, Resid. U.S. (1822), 7. This little stalk, to which the seeds adhere, is called the Corn Cob.
1858. O. W. Holmes, Aut. Breakf.-t., 39. London is like a shelled corn-cob on the Derby day.
1881. T. Hughes, Rugby, Tennessee, 58. They remained peacefully among corn-cobs till the danger had passed.
b. attrib., as corn-cob pipe, a tobacco-pipe with the bowl made of the cob of Indian corn; corn-cob shell, a shell made by removing the pith of the cob and filling the hollow with powder.
