corb
/ˈkɔː(ɹ)b/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.61 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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. I raised it, and by his direction dropped it into the throat of the shaft, where it hung and shook from a great cross-beam laid at the level of the earth. 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."
- "I[…] carried my corb of fagots home on my back, while my two youngsters had each their bundle on their little shoulders too"
- "Some bore amain The death-vat, some the corbs of hallowed grain"
Etymology
From Latin corbis (“basket”).