Definition of bob

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

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Tag-rag :: Tag-rag (n. & a.) The lowest class of people; the rabble. Cf. Rag, tag, and bobtail, under Bobtail..
Bobbin :: Bobbin (n.) The little rounded piece of wood, at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch..
Bob :: Bob (n.) To cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch.
Bobbinwork :: Bobbinwork (n.) Work woven with bobbins.
Bobbin :: Bobbin (n.) A fine cord or narrow braid.
Bobbish :: Bobbish (a.) Hearty; in good spirits.
Subobtuse :: Subobscurely (adv.) Somewhat obscurely or darkly.
Bobber :: Bobber (n.) One who, or that which, bobs..
Winder :: Winder (n.) An apparatus used for winding silk, cotton, etc., on spools, bobbins, reels, or the like..
Nabob :: Nabob (n.) One who returns to Europe from the East with immense riches: hence, any man of great wealth..
Bob :: Bob (n.) A short, jerking motion; act of bobbing; as, a bob of the head..
Bob :: Bob (n.) A shilling.
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..
Plummet :: Plummet (n.) A plumb bob or a plumb line. See under Plumb, n..
Bobolink :: Bobolink (n.) An American singing bird (Dolichonyx oryzivorus). The male is black and white; the female is brown; -- called also, ricebird, reedbird, and Boblincoln..
Heck :: Heck (n.) An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine..
Bobbery :: Bobbery (n.) A squabble; a tumult; a noisy disturbance; as, to raise a bobbery..
Bobstay :: Bobstay (n.) A rope or chain to confine the bowsprit of a ship downward to the stem or cutwater; -- usually in the pl.
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..
Bobby :: Bobby (n.) A nickname for a policeman; -- from Sir Robert Peel, who remodeled the police force. See Peeler..
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