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Bob :: Bob (n.) To cut short; as, to bob the hair, or a horse's tail..

Bob Wig :: Bob wig () A short wig with bobs or short curls; -- called also bobtail wig.

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

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..

Bob-cherry :: Bob-cherry (n.) A play among children, in which a cherry, hung so as to bob against the mouth, is to be caught with the teeth..

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

Plumb :: Plumb (n.) A little mass or weight of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction; a plummet; a plumb bob. See Plumb line, below..

Spindle :: Spindle (n.) The long, round, slender rod or pin in spinning wheels by which the thread is twisted, and on which, when twisted, it is wound; also, the pin on which the bobbin is held in a spinning machine, or in the shuttle of a loom..

Quail :: Quail (n.) Any one of several American partridges belonging to Colinus, Callipepla, and allied genera, especially the bobwhite (called Virginia quail, and Maryland quail), and the California quail (Calipepla Californica)..

Bobbed :: Bobbed (imp. & p. p.) of Bo.

Bobfly :: Bobfly (n.) The fly at the end of the leader; an end fly.

Bob :: Bob (n.) To mock or delude; to cheat.

Plummet :: Plummet (n.) A plumb bob or a plumb line. See under Plumb, n..

Bob :: Bob (n.) A jeer or flout; a sharp jest or taunt; a trick.

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.

Bobbin :: Bobbin (n.) The little rounded piece of wood, at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch..

Bobac :: Bobac (n.) The Poland marmot (Arctomys bobac).

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 (v. i.) To have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything..

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

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