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