Usually means: Striking someone, especially on ship.
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  1. cobbing: Merriam-Webster
  2. cobbing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. cobbing: Wordnik
  4. cobbing: Wiktionary
  5. cobbing: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. Cobbing, cobbing: Dictionary.com
  7. Cobbing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Cobbing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. cobbing: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Cobbing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. cobbing: FreeDictionary.org
  12. Cobbing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Cobbing: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (cobbing)

noun:  (military, prison) an unofficial form of punishment among the crew or prisoners involving blows to the buttocks from a piece of wood or a handsaw.
noun:  (mining) The manual separation of minerals in ore using a hammer.
noun:  The production of cobs.

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