scob
/skɒb/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.19 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To create a scob.
Example Sentences
- "A scob, again, is a blemish in the cloth arising from the interruption of the threads in shedding, preventing the proper interlacing of the warp and the weft."
- "The weft stopper will stop the loom when the weft is exhausted in the shuttle; and when a warp thread breaks in the shed in a position to make a scob or float, the scob preventor will also stop the loom, and an apparatus may also be applied to change the shuttle without stopping the loom;"
- "Ere she could obey his orders, however, the seed-box slipped to the floor, and from it rolled over thirty sixpences, the missing scobs in the weft, which Wattie had so carefully preserved for the winter's campaign."
- "I think the freedom from such casualties is due to the fact that, in Scotland, no woman works more than two looms, and thus can very quickly detect the formation of a 'scob' or any other defect which would cause a shuttle to fly."
- "Possessed of the keys, the boys broke into Mr. Goddard's apartments, and blocked up the passage of communication between them and the Warden's lodging with scobs."
- "In School we had our scobs, two rows of them on the north side, one on the south."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /skɒb/