COBBING, a punishment sometimes inflicted at sea. It is performed by striking the offender a certain number of times on the breech with a flat piece of wood
Cobitis wood called the cobbing-board. It is chiefly used as a punishment to those who quit their station during the period of the night-watch.
Cobitis, the LOACHE, in ichthyology, a genus of fishes belonging to the order of abdominalis. The eyes are in the upper part of the head. The branchiostegæ membrane has from four to five rays; and the body is nearly of an equal thickness throughout. The species are five; three of which are natives of Europe. The loache is found in several of our small rivers, keeping at the bottom on the gravel; and is, on that account, in some places called the groundling: It is frequent in the stream near Amesbury in Wiltshire, where the sportsmen, thro' frolic, swallow it down alive in a glass of white-wine.