Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The large edible nut of a cultivated variety of hazel.
- noun The plant bearing this fruit.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A round nut; a large hazelnut.
- noun A children's game, played with cobnuts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Com.) A large roundish variety of the cultivated hazelnut.
- noun A game played by children with nuts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The nut of the common hazel (Corylus avellana);
hazelnut - noun A game played by children with nuts.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small nut-bearing tree much grown in Europe
- noun nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus
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Examples
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Check out www.cobnuts.co.uk for other recipe ideas - damson and cobnut mincemeat caught my eye.
Kentish Cobnut Cake 2006
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Check out www.cobnuts.co.uk for other recipe ideas - damson and cobnut mincemeat caught my eye.
Archive 2006-10-01 2006
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One cobnut and a thimbleful of sherry wine per diem.
The Holiday Round 1919
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Besides our unusual privilege of grape-growing in the open air, our little estate boasted a magnificent beurré pear tree, a small arbor of intertwined and peculiarly fine filbert and cobnut trees, and some capital greengage and apple trees; among the latter, a remarkably large and productive Ribstone pippin.
Records of a Girlhood Fanny Kemble 1851
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Chris is even more taken with his latest discovery: a cobnut tree.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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A newcomer in this field is Kentish cobnut oil from Hurstwood Farm near Sevenoaks in Kent www.cobnutoil.co.uk.
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The power of the press: We all love a drizzle of olive oil, but what about cobnut, avocado or truffle?
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You can substitute cobnut oil for butter in baked potatoes or toss boiled new potatoes in the oil with a little black pepper.
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Forget extra virgin, top chefs are raving about this home-produced cobnut oil, with its mild hazelnut flavour, perfect for dressings and drizzling.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Forget extra virgin, top chefs are raving about this home-produced cobnut oil, with its mild hazelnut flavour, perfect for dressings and drizzling.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
hernesheir commented on the word cobnut
Hazelnut, so says Larouse Gastronomique and other sources. Great term for describing the size of an object being described - "Oh, it was about as big as a cobnut - very much larger than a garden pea or the eraser on a new pencil. Not nearly as big as a conker."
February 18, 2010