Small nut-bearing tree much grown in Europe.
Nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus.
1 My cobnut tree has a bumper crop this year, so I am told.
2 Anyone who has ever shelled a wild hazelnut or cobnut will appreciate the convenience of seeing packets of shelled hazelnuts in the supermarkets.
3 Abutting the cherry orchard was a great field of cobnuts that were harvested by hand.
4 Tucked away behind high-banked roads near Sevenoaks, it was famous primarily for cobnuts , but produced a host of marvellous fruit boughs, too.
5 Thomas Wyatt brings him baskets of cobnuts and filberts, bushels of Kentish apples, jolting up himself to Austin Friars on the carrier's cart.
6 Originally it was played with snail (conch) shells and then cobnuts , eventually being replaced with horse chestnut seeds by the 20th century.
7 "Oh cobnuts - Rodan and Asiacus!"
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