Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In architecture, a corbel.
  • noun A basket; an alms-basket. Specifically
  • noun In mining, a vessel of sheet-iron used in raising coal from the bottom of the shaft; a corf.
  • noun An abbreviated form of corban.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A basket used in coal mines, etc. see corf.
  • noun (Arch.) An ornament in a building; a corbel.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A basket used in coal mines, etc.; a corf.
  • noun architecture An ornament in a building; a corbel.

Etymologies

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Latin corbis ("basket").

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Examples

  • Philogynist friday night part two* which 90% of you will find more interesting than part 1 wherein the group of philogynist, raymi and wendi depart the steam whistle brewery to meet christie at lee's palace for the musical brouhaha that was elliott brood preceded by corb lund.

    Philogynist 2007

  • A very stout thick rope was fastened to the handle of the corb, and ran across a pulley hanging from the centre of the beam, and thence out of sight in the nether places.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Ben should he choked with money, I found the corb sent up for me rather sooner than I wished it.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • He said no more, but signed to me to lift a heavy wooden corb with an iron loop across it, and sunk in a little pit of earth, a yard or so from the mouth of the shaft.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • My teeth would chatter, do all I could; but the strength of my arms was with me; and by them I held on the grimy rope, and so eased the foot of the corb, which threatened to go away fathoms under me.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • My teeth would chatter, do all I could; but the strength of my arms was with me; and by them I held on the grimy rope, and so eased the foot of the corb, which threatened to go away fathoms under me.

    Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor 1862

  • Having now true right of entrance, and being known to the watchman, and regarded (since I cracked the boulder) as one who could pay his footing, and perhaps would be the master, when Uncle Ben should be choked with money, I found the corb sent up for me rather sooner than I wished it.

    Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor 1862

  • He said no more, but signed to me to lift a heavy wooden corb with an iron loop across it, and sunk in a little pit of earth, a yard or so from the mouth of the shaft.

    Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor 1862

  • A very stout thick rope was fastened to the handle of the corb, and ran across a pulley hanging from the centre of the beam, and thence out of sight in the nether places.

    Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor 1862

  • A small corb would now hold all that remained of both mother and daughter.

    Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII Alexander Leighton 1837

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