#cobbing

A punishment often used aboard ship to address petty offenses. It normally involved 12 or so whacks to the posterior with a cobbing stick (a heavy, flat piece of wood resembling a yardstick) or pipe staff, although handsawa or anything flat could also be used in a pinch.

"Cobbed". Plate by W. Read, after Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827), from The Adventures of Johnny Newcome in the Navy, 1818. (x)

Cobbing is the ohase when a dog is a puppy and gnaws on everything, in the modwest we give em a corn-cob to gnaw on. Thus: cobbing.

I miss having a little puppy chew on my arm, not out of malice or anything, just out of love of the game.

I remembered how much i miss it when I picked up Johto, my scarites beetle, and all he did was headbutt and try to bite my fingers.

It is the archetypal English country cottage, the birthplace of Thomas Hardy in Higher Bockhampton near Dorchester in Dorset with walls constructed of cob and with a roof of thatch. But what is cob? There is evidence that cob was used as a building material in the 13th century, possibly devised as a variation of the wattle-and-daub style of construction, but it gained popularity in the late 18th…

Cantering Through Cant (12) - military punishments in the form of cobbing, cold burning and giving the cold pig, according to Francis Grose

Groups and associations, particularly the rank and file of the military, are keen to impose their own forms of discipline on their colleagues. Francis Grose’s A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1785) is full of examples. Here are just three.

Cob or cobbing Grose describes as “a punishment used by the seamen for petty offences, or irregularities, amongst themselves; it consists of…