boatsmant (botsman)

[ 606 a deer's tail;... strips of red flannel or red feathers are sometimes added, forming a kind of ta el, with the points of the hooks projecting at equal distances. The Century, XXVI. 383. (9) A float or cork for a fish-line. 4. A small wheel made entirely of a thick piece of bull-neck or sea-cow leather, perforated for the reception of the spindle, used for polishing the inside of the bowls of spoons and the concave portions of other articles. -5t. The words repeated at the end of a stanza; the burden of a song. "To bed, to bed," will be the bob of the song. bobbin bob3t (bob), v. t.; pret. and pp. bobbed, ppr. bob bing. [ So by sic he feynyd myraclis men by gylenhemsilf and dispisen God, as the torment ours that bobbiden Crist. Rel. Antiq ., ii. 47. 2. To deceive; delude; cheat. Play her pranks and bob the foole. Turberville , A Pretie Epigram. You're bobb'd ; 'twas but a deed in trust. Middle ton (and others ), The Widow, v. 1. 3. To gain by fraud or cheating. Gold, and jewels, that I bobb'd from him. Shak., Othello, v. 1. bob3 (bob), n. [ bobs , v. Cf. OF. bobe , mocking, deception.] A taunt; a jeer or flout; a trick. Let her leave her bobs ; I have had too many of them; and her quillets. Fletcher, Tamer Tamed. a bob maximus. considerably inclined.-9. A dance. [Scotch.] O what'n a bob was the bob o' Dunblane. A plain brown bob he wore. Jacobite Song.