Index of English words, starting with "bo"

(1) - Bob (n.) A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
(2) - Bob (n.) A knot of worms, or of rags, on a string, used in angling, as for eels; formerly, a worm suitable for bait.
(3) - Bob (n.) A small piece of cork or light wood attached to a fishing line to show when a fish is biting; a float.
(4) - Bob (n.) The ball or heavy part of a pendulum; also, the ball or weight at the end of a plumb line.
(5) - Bob (n.) A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
(6) - Bob (n.) A short, jerking motion; act of bobbing; as, a bob of the head.
(7) - Bob (n.) A working beam.
(8) - Bob (n.) A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.
(9) - Bob (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.
(10) - Bob (n.) The refrain of a song.
(11) - Bob (v. i.) To angle with a bob. See Bob, n., 2 & 3.
(12) - Bob (n.) A jeer or flout; a sharp jest or taunt; a trick.
(13) - Bob (n.) A shilling.
(14) - Bob (n.) To cause to move in a short, jerking manner; to move (a thing) with a bob.
(15) - Bob (n.) To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
(16) - Bob (n.) To cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch.
(17) - Bob (n.) To mock or delude; to cheat.
(18) - Bob (n.) To cut short; as, to bob the hair, or a horse's tail.
(19) - Bob (v. i.) To have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything.
(20) - Bob (n.) A peculiar mode of ringing changes on bells.

(1) - Bobber (n.) One who, or that which, bobs.

(1) - Bobbery (n.) A squabble; a tumult; a noisy disturbance; as, to raise a bobbery.

(1) - Bobbin (n.) 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.
(2) - Bobbin (n.) A fine cord or narrow braid.
(3) - Bobbin (n.) The little rounded piece of wood, at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.
(4) - Bobbin (n.) A spool or reel of various material and construction, with a head at one or both ends, and sometimes with a hole bored through its length by which it may be placed on a spindle or pivot. It is used to hold yarn or thread, as in spinning or warping machines, looms, sewing machines, etc.
(5) - 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.