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Nabob :: Nabob (n.) One who returns to Europe from the East with immense riches: hence, any man of great wealth..

Bob :: Bob (n.) Anything that hangs so as to play loosely, or with a short abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant; as, the bob at the end of a kite's tail..

Traveler :: Traveler (n.) The metal loop which travels around the ring surrounding the bobbin, in a ring spinner..

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.

Butterbird :: Butterbird (n.) The rice bunting or bobolink; -- so called in the island of Jamaica.

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..

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..

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

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

Black Hole :: Black hole () A dungeon or dark cell in a prison; a military lock-up or guardroom; -- now commonly with allusion to the cell (the Black Hole) in a fort at Calcutta, into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20, 17656, and in which 123 of the prisoners died before morning from lack of air..

Nabob :: Nabob (n.) A deputy or viceroy in India; a governor of a province of the ancient Mogul empire.

Ricebird :: Ricebird (n.) The bobolink.

Bob :: Bob (n.) To cause to move in a short, jerking manner; to move (a thing) with a bob..

Bobance :: Bobance (n.) A boasting.

Subobtuse :: Subobscurely (adv.) Somewhat obscurely or darkly.

Bobbin :: Bobbin (n.) A cylindrical or spool-shaped coil or insulated wire, usually containing a core of soft iron which becomes magnetic when the wire is traversed by an electrical current..

Cabob :: Cabob (v. t.) To roast, as a cabob..

Bob :: Bob (n.) To cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch.

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

Bob :: Bob (n.) A working beam.

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