Definition of bob

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Bob (n.) A peculiar mode of ringing changes on bells.

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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.
Bob :: Bob (v. i.) To angle with a bob. See Bob, n., 2 & 3..
Bob :: Bob (n.) A jeer or flout; a sharp jest or taunt; a trick.
Nabob :: Nabob (n.) One who returns to Europe from the East with immense riches: hence, any man of great wealth..
Bobtail :: Bobtail (a.) Bobtailed.
Colin :: Colin (n.) The American quail or bobwhite. The name is also applied to other related species. See Bobwhite.
Dropper :: Dropper (n.) One who, or that which, drops. Specif.: (Fishing) A fly that drops from the leaden above the bob or end fly..
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..
Winder :: Winder (n.) An apparatus used for winding silk, cotton, etc., on spools, bobbins, reels, or the like..
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..
Ricebird :: Ricebird (n.) The bobolink.
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 :: Bob (n.) To cut short; as, to bob the hair, or a horse's tail..
Subobtuse :: Subobscurely (adv.) Somewhat obscurely or darkly.
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)..
Tailed :: Tailed (a.) Having a tail; having (such) a tail or (so many) tails; -- chiefly used in composition; as, bobtailed, longtailed, etc..
Bobbing :: Bobbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bo.
Bobsled :: Bobsled (n.) Alt. of Bobsleig.
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.) To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap..
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