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kolbe

“kolbe” is a Danish word. Its 5 meanings in English:

noun

  1. a laboratory flask
  2. glass container (for brewing (flask) coffee)
  3. a butt (of a firearm)
  4. spadix
  5. a cob (of corn on the cob)

Etymology

Either from Low German kolve or German Kolben, partly mixed with the word's nordic equivalent Old Norse kolfr===>kolv.

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