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Cob-nut

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A nut with a tuft. (Welsh, cob or cop, a tuft; German, kopf, the head.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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