Definition of bob

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Bob (n.) A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig..

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Bob :: Bob (n.) A short, jerking motion; act of bobbing; as, a bob of the head..
Creel :: Creel (n.) A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule..
Bobby :: Bobby (n.) A nickname for a policeman; -- from Sir Robert Peel, who remodeled the police force. See Peeler..
Bob :: Bob (n.) A shilling.
Bobance :: Bobance (n.) A boasting.
Bob :: Bob (n.) A small piece of cork or light wood attached to a fishing line to show when a fish is biting; a float.
Plummet :: Plummet (n.) A plumb bob or a plumb line. See under Plumb, n..
Bobbin :: Bobbin (n.) A fine cord or narrow braid.
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..
Duck :: Duck (v. t.) To bow; to bob down; to move quickly with a downward motion.
Nabob :: Nabob (n.) A deputy or viceroy in India; a governor of a province of the ancient Mogul empire.
Reedbird :: Reedbird (n.) The bobolink.
Bob :: Bob (n.) The refrain of a song.
Tag-rag :: Tag-rag (n. & a.) The lowest class of people; the rabble. Cf. Rag, tag, and bobtail, under Bobtail..
Bobac :: Bobac (n.) The Poland marmot (Arctomys bobac).
Bone :: Bone (n.) Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace..
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..
Fly :: Fly (v. i.) The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn..
Bobbin :: Bobbin (n.) The little rounded piece of wood, at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch..
Tailed :: Tailed (a.) Having a tail; having (such) a tail or (so many) tails; -- chiefly used in composition; as, bobtailed, longtailed, etc..
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