Definition of bob

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Bob (n.) A small piece of cork or light wood attached to a fishing line to show when a fish is biting; a float.

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Bob :: Bob (n.) To cut short; as, to bob the hair, or a horse's tail..
Bob :: Bob (n.) A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig..
Bobbery :: Bobbery (n.) A squabble; a tumult; a noisy disturbance; as, to raise a bobbery..
Bob :: Bob (n.) The ball or heavy part of a pendulum; also, the ball or weight at the end of a plumb line..
Duck :: Duck (v. t.) To bow; to bob down; to move quickly with a downward motion.
Bob :: Bob (n.) A knot of worms, or of rags, on a string, used in angling, as for eels; formerly, a worm suitable for bait..
Tailed :: Tailed (a.) Having a tail; having (such) a tail or (so many) tails; -- chiefly used in composition; as, bobtailed, longtailed, etc..
Bob :: Bob (n.) A shilling.
Bobtail :: Bobtail (a.) Bobtailed.
Bob :: Bob (n.) To cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch.
Suboccipital :: Subobtuse (a.) Partially obtuse.
Kabob :: Kabob (n. & v. t.) See Cabob, n. & v. t..
Bob :: Bob (n.) To cause to move in a short, jerking manner; to move (a thing) with a bob..
Bobbing :: Bobbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bo.
Bob :: Bob (n.) A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist..
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..
Bobwhite :: Bobwhite (n.) The common quail of North America (Colinus, or Ortyx, Virginianus); -- so called from its note..
Bobsled :: Bobsled (n.) Alt. of Bobsleig.
Butterbird :: Butterbird (n.) The rice bunting or bobolink; -- so called in the island of Jamaica.
Dropper :: Dropper (n.) One who, or that which, drops. Specif.: (Fishing) A fly that drops from the leaden above the bob or end fly..
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