corb

A basket, for example one used in coal mines, etc.

Noun

  1. A basket, for example one used in coal mines, etc.
    • 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...
    • I[…] carried my corb of fagots home on my back, while my two youngsters had each their bundle on their little shoulders too - 1863, Henry Mayhew, The Boyhood of Martin Luther:
    • Some bore amain The death-vat, some the corbs of hallowed grain - 1913, Gilbert Murray (translator), Euripides (original), Electra:

    Synonyms: corf

  2. a corbel (ornament in a building).
  3. A brown meagre (Sciaena umbra)

Origin

From Latin corbis (“basket”).

Forms

corbs