Obs. [f. COB v.1 3: one of the forms must app. be erroneous.] = COBBING, a punishment used on shipboard.
1582. B. M. MS. Addit. 5008 lf. 22 a, l. 3. They gaue hym a cobkey upon the cap of the mayn-mast.
1626. Capt. Smith, Accid. Yng. Sea-men, 4. The Marshall is … to see Iustice executed … as ducking at Yards arme, hawling vnder the Keele,… setting in the bilbowes, and to pay the Cobty or the Morryoune.
