English English Dictionary

A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.

The refrain of a song.

A peculiar mode of ringing changes on bells.

A working beam.

A short, jerking motion; act of bobbing; as, a bob of the head.

A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.

The ball or heavy part of a pendulum; also, the ball or weight at the end of a plumb line.

A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.

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

A knot of worms, or of rags, on a string, used in angling, as for eels; formerly, a worm suitable for bait.

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.

A short wig with bobs or short curls; -- called also bobtail wig.

A play among children, in which a cherry, hung so as to bob against the mouth, is to be caught with the teeth.

The Poland marmot (Arctomys bobac).

A boasting.

of Bob

One who, or that which, bobs.

A squabble; a tumult; a noisy disturbance; as, to raise a bobbery.

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.

The little rounded piece of wood, at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.