scobs

Also used as

scobs is also the third-person singular simple present indicative of scob.

scobs is also the plural of scob.

Examples of scobs in a sentence

• Heliogabalus ordered the portico to be strewed in lieu of scobs with gold and silver dust, and lamented that he could not find amber enough for that purpose.1766, Tobias Smollett, Travels Through France and Italy:
• On our knees we began by sprinkling “scobs” (lightly oiled sawdust) on a cement stair, then with a hand broom, sweeping those scobs down to the next stair, until we got to the bottom.2012, J. Richard Murray, Seen and Unseen Worlds: Private Memoirs of a Former Jesuit, page 37:
• The Uncles Brickell, Swarfega kings, enseamed with swarf and scobs, skin measled with gunmetal but glistening faintly, loud in the smoke.2014, John Goodby, “The Uncles”, in Songs of Ourselves, page 27:
• A scow laden with dead horse , and another laden with scobs and foundry slag, floated by.1930, Bernard Levi Jefferson, Paul Landis, Arthur Wellesley Secord, Literary Studies for Rhetoric Classes, page 631:

Synonyms of scobs

• scoria

Origin of scobs

From Latin scobs, or scobis, from scabere (“to scrape”).

Phrases with scobs

• scobs someone's knob

Questions about scobs

What does scobs mean?

Scobs means raspings of wood, ivory, hartshorn, metals, or other hard substance.

How do you use scobs in a sentence?

Heliogabalus ordered the portico to be strewed in lieu of scobs with gold and silver dust, and lamented that he could not find amber enough for that purpose.

What part of speech is scobs?

Scobs is a noun.

How do you pronounce scobs?

Scobs is pronounced /skɒbz/ (UK).