Coble
or COBBLE, a low flat-floored boat with a square stern, used in salmonfishery.
COBLENZ (anciently Confluentes, from its situation at the confluence of the Rhine and Moselle), a fortified town of Germany, capital of Rhenish Prussia, finely situated on the left bank of the Rhine in the angle between it and the Moselle, and connected by a pontoonbridge over the Rhine with the fortress of Ehrenbreitstein; this, along with its other fortifications is capable of accommodating 100,000 men. The palace of the Elector of Treves was a Prussian royal residence. Its industries before the World War embraced cigars, machinery, champagne-wines, pianos, and it had an important trade in Rhine and Moselle wines. Coblenz was the headquarters of the American Army of Occupation, following the Armistice of November, 1918. Pop. about 60,000.
COB NUT, a large variety of hazelnut.