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corbs

corbs is the plural of corb.

Meaning of corb

Noun

corb (plural corbs)

  1. (archaic) A basket, for example one used in coal mines, etc.
    • He said no more, but signed to me to lift a heavy wooden corb with an iron loop across it, and sunk in a little pit of earth, a yard or so from the mouth of the shaft. I raised it, and by his direction dropped it into the throat of the shaft, where it hung and shook from a great cross-beam laid at...1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    corf
  2. (obsolete) a corbel (ornament in a building).
  3. A brown meagre (Sciaena umbra)

Questions about corbs

What is corbs the plural of?
Corbs is the plural of corb.

Words near corbs in the dictionary

  1. Corbo
  2. Corbos
  3. corbovinum
  4. Corbridge
  5. Corbridges
  6. corbs
  7. Corbu
  8. corbular
  9. corbulid
  10. corbulids
  11. Corbusian

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