† cobkey, cobty 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. Seamen 4 The Marshall is..to see Justice executed..as ducking at yards arme, hawling vnder the Keele..setting in the bilbowes, and to pay the Cobty or the Morryoune. |