BOB

noun a working beam.

2. bob ·noun the refrain of a song.

3. bob ·noun a shilling.

4. bob ·vi to angle with a bob. ·see bob, ·noun, 2 & 3.

5. bob ·noun a peculiar mode of ringing changes on bells.

6. bob ·noun a knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.

7. bob ·noun a blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.

8. bob ·noun a jeer or flout; a sharp jest or taunt; a trick.

9. bob ·noun to mock or delude; to cheat.

10. bob ·noun to cut short; as, to bob the hair, or a horse's tail.

11. bob ·noun a short, jerking motion; act of bobbing; as, a bob of the head.

12. bob ·noun to strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.

13. bob ·noun to cause to move in a short, jerking manner; to move (a thing) with a bob.

14. bob ·noun a small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, ·etc.

15. bob ·noun the ball or heavy part of a pendulum; also, the ball or weight at the end of a plumb line.

xvi. bob ·noun to cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch.

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

xviii. bob ·vi to have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything.

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

xx. bob ·noun 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.