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The little rounded piece of wood, at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.
A fine cord or narrow braid.
A cylindrical or spool-shaped coil or insulated wire, usually containing a core of soft iron which becomes magnetic when the wire is traversed by an electrical current.
A kind of cotton lace which is wrought by machines, and not by hand.
of Bob
Work woven with bobbins.
Hearty; in good spirits.
A nickname for a policeman; -- from Sir Robert Peel, who remodeled the police force. See Peeler.
The fly at the end of the leader; an end fly.
An American singing bird (Dolichonyx oryzivorus). The male is black and white; the female is brown; -- called also, ricebird, reedbird, and Boblincoln.
Alt. of Bobsleigh
A short sled, mostly used as one of a pair connected by a reach or coupling; also, the compound sled so formed.
A rope or chain to confine the bowsprit of a ship downward to the stem or cutwater; -- usually in the pl.
An animal (as a horse or dog) with a short tail.
Bobtailed.
Having the tail cut short, or naturally short; curtailed; as, a bobtailed horse or dog; a bobtailed coat.
The common quail of North America (Colinus, or Ortyx, Virginianus); -- so called from its note.
A cylindrical glass vessel, with a large and short neck.
A form of syllogism of which the first and third propositions are particular negatives, and the middle term a universal affirmative.
A prison; -- originally the name of the old north gate in Oxford, which was used as a prison.