See cobby in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "This material had been made up with success from a fairly uniform, bright and compact or cobby grade of thick-skinned barley,",
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"text": "If the rest of your outfit's as cobby as you and this pair, I hope the lot of you […]",
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"text": "There's no need for you to be fatched, lad: my Grandfather Bray was just such a cobby old fellow!",
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