Note 3 — PREFACE
Reading edition
Cobbing is a punishment inflicted by tying the culprit to the windlass, when each man in turn gives him two or three blows with the flat side of the carpenter's saw.—Welby.
Reading edition
Cobbing is a punishment inflicted by tying the culprit to the windlass, when each man in turn gives him two or three blows with the flat side of the carpenter's saw.—Welby.