A group of countries acting together for political or economic goals, an alliance: e.g., the eastern bloc, the western bloc, a trading bloc, the Eurozone, the European Union.
A group of voters or politicians who share common goals.
bmoc
bmoc
Noun
Big Man On Campus; a popular or high-profile high school or college student.
boac
boca
boce
bock
bock
noun
A strong dark beer brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for spring consumption.
bosc
bpoc
bsoc
chob
cobb
cobb
noun
(US) A knock or blow.
A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe. Also called cob, rammed earth or pisé.
A hand-basket, especially made from wicker.
A pier made from cobblestones.
A sea-cob or gull.
Alternative form of cob (“person of mixed (black and white) race”)
cobe
cobh
cobs
cobs
noun
plural of cob
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cob
colb
comb
comb
noun
(Cornwall, mining, obsolete) A kind of vertical plate in a lode.
(algebraic geometry) A connected and reduced curve with irreducible components consisting of a smooth subcurve (called the handle) and one or more additional irreducible components (called teeth) that each intersect the handle in a single point that is unequal to the unique point of intersection for any of the other teeth.
(by extension) A crest (of metal, leather, etc) on a piece of armor, especially on a helmet.
(music) The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
(rare) Abbreviation of combination..
(weaving) A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.
A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.
A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
Alternative form of combe
An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions, with which they comb substrate.
The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
The top part of a gun’s stock.
verb
(nautical, intransitive) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
(naval, transitive) To turn a vessel parallel to (the track of) (a torpedo) so as to reduce one's size as a target.
(transitive) To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
(transitive) To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
(transitive, especially of hair or fur) To groom with a toothed implement, especially a comb.
rboc
scob
scob
noun
(Winchester College) A wooden box with two lids, used as a storage box and movable desk.
(weaving) A flaw in which the weft misses a few warp threads.
verb
(coal mining) To pack a wagon with large pieces on top so as to hide gaps resulting from it not being completely filled.