Obs. [Very rare as a separate word, and, in this form, probably taken from COBWEB, ME. coppe-web: cf. COP sb.3 But cf. mod.Flem. cobbe, coppe, Westphalian cobbe, spider.] A spider.
1657. Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., 470. They [ants] hunt not after smaller animals, like Cobs, but degust them when dead.
