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Reedbird :: Reedbird (n.) The bobolink.

Bob :: Bob (n.) The ball or heavy part of a pendulum; also, the ball or weight at the end of a plumb line..

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..

Bobstay :: Bobstay (n.) A rope or chain to confine the bowsprit of a ship downward to the stem or cutwater; -- usually in the pl.

Bobbin :: Bobbin (n.) A fine cord or narrow braid.

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..

Purfile :: Purfile (n.) A sort of ancient trimming of tinsel and thread for women's gowns; -- called also bobbinwork.

Bobsleigh :: Bobsleigh (n.) A short sled, mostly used as one of a pair connected by a reach or coupling; also, the compound sled so formed..

Bob :: Bob (v. i.) To angle with a bob. See Bob, n., 2 & 3..

Warp :: Warp (v. i.) To wind yarn off bobbins for forming the warp of a web; to wind a warp on a warp beam.

Bob :: Bob (n.) A shilling.

Bobbinet :: Bobbinet (n.) A kind of cotton lace which is wrought by machines, and not by hand..

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

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

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..

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

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..

Duck :: Duck (v. t.) To bow; to bob down; to move quickly with a downward motion.

Ypres Lace :: Ypres lace () Fine bobbin lace made at Ypres in Belgium, usually exactly like Valenciennes lace..

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

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