Bob: Definition and part of speech

Bob

  1. n. A shilling.
  2. 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.
  3. n. A knot of worms, or of rags, on a string, used in angling, as for eels; formerly, a worm suitable for bait.
  4. n. A small piece of cork or light wood attached to a fishing line to show when a fish is biting; a float.
  5. n. The ball or heavy part of a pendulum; also, the ball or weight at the end of a plumb line.
  6. n. A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
  7. n. A short, jerking motion; act of bobbing; as, a bob of the head.
  8. n. A working beam.
  9. n. A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.
  10. n. A peculiar mode of ringing changes on bells.
  11. 1n. 1 A shilling.
  12. 1n. 1 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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