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Fly :: Fly (v. i.) The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn..

Bobwhite :: Bobwhite (n.) The common quail of North America (Colinus, or Ortyx, Virginianus); -- so called from its note..

Throstle :: Throstle (n.) A machine for spinning wool, cotton, etc., from the rove, consisting of a set of drawing rollers with bobbins and flyers, and differing from the mule in having the twisting apparatus stationary and the processes continuous; -- so called because it makes a singing noise..

Bob :: Bob (n.) A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist..

Bobsled :: Bobsled (n.) Alt. of Bobsleig.

Bob :: Bob (n.) To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap..

Popple :: Popple (v. i.) To move quickly up and down; to bob up and down, as a cork on rough water; also, to bubble..

Creel :: Creel (n.) A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule..

Duck :: Duck (v. t.) To bow; to bob down; to move quickly with a downward motion.

Tag-rag :: Tag-rag (n. & a.) The lowest class of people; the rabble. Cf. Rag, tag, and bobtail, under Bobtail..

Bobbin :: Bobbin (n.) A small pin, or cylinder, formerly of bone, now most commonly of wood, used in the making of pillow lace. Each thread is wound on a separate bobbin which hangs down holding the thread at a slight tension..

Bobance :: Bobance (n.) A boasting.

Carrier :: Carrier (n.) That which drives or carries; as: (a) A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the face plate; a lathe dog. (b) A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine. (c) A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel.

Bobtail :: Bobtail (a.) Bobtailed.

Ricebird :: Ricebird (n.) The bobolink.

Suboccipital :: Subobtuse (a.) Partially obtuse.

Bob :: Bob (n.) The refrain of a song.

Kabob :: Kabob (n. & v. t.) See Cabob, n. & v. t..

Bob :: Bob (n.) A short, jerking motion; act of bobbing; as, a bob of the head..

Bobby :: Bobby (n.) A nickname for a policeman; -- from Sir Robert Peel, who remodeled the police force. See Peeler..

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