bob
n. குதித்தாடும் பொருள், ஊசல் குண்டு, எடை நுல் குண்டு, காற்றாடி வாலின்எடைகுண்டு, சட்டித்தலை, குறுகத்தறித்த முடி, குஞ்சம், தறித்த குதிரைவால் மயிர், பழக்கொத்து, புழுக்களின் தொகுதி, புழுக்கூடு, பாவின் ஈ.ற்றுக்குறிலடி, எருப்பிசைத்துணுக்கு, பல்லவி, வெட்டியிழுப்பு, தலையசைப்பு, சிறு வணக்கம், மணியடிப்பதில் தனிக்குறிப்பிசைப்பு, மென்மையான தட்டு, மெல்லிய அடி, கேலித்துணுக்கு, தொங்கட்டம், ஆங்கில வௌளிக்காசு, (வினை) துள்ளிபாடு, தலையசைத்து வணக்கம் தெரிவி, சட்டென விலகு, வெட்டியிழு, நழுவி ஏய், புழுக்கூட்டுடன் மீன் தூண்டிலிடு, மயிர் குறுக வெட்டு, வால் குறுகத்திறி, வணக்கத்துடன் காரியமாற்று, துள்ளுகிற வண்டியிவர்ந்து செல்.
Bob, n. Etym: [An onomatopoetic word, expressing quick, jerky motion; OE. bob bunch, bobben to strike, mock, deceive. Cf. Prov. Eng. bob, n., a ball, an engine beam, bunch, blast, trick, taunt, scoff; as, a v., to dance, to courtesy, to disappoint, OF. bober to mock.] 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. In jewels dressed and at each ear a bob. Dryden. 2. A knot of worms, or of rags, on a string, used in angling, as for eels; formerly, a worm suitable for bait. Or yellow bobs, turned up before the plow, Are chiefest baits, with cork and lead enow. Lauson. 3. A small piece of cork or light wood attached to a fishing line to show when a fish is biting; a float. 4. The ball or heavy part of a pendulum; also, the ball or weight at the end of a plumb line. 5. A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc. 6. A short, jerking motion; act of bobbing; as, a bob of the head. 7. (Steam Engine) Defn: A working beam. 8. A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig. A plain brown bob he wore. Shenstone. 9. A peculiar mode of ringing changes on bells. 10. The refrain of a song. To bed, to bed, will be the bob of the song. L'Estrange. 11. A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist. 12. A jeer or flout; a sharp jest or taunt; a trick. He that a fool doth very wisely hit, Doth very foolishly, although he smart, Not to seem senseless of the bob. Shak. 13. A shilling. [Slang, Eng.] Dickens. Bob, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bobbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Bobbing.] Etym: [OE. bobben. See Bob, n.] 1. To cause to move in a short, jerking manner; to move (a thing) with a bob. "He bobbed his head." W. Irving. 2. To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap. If any man happened by long sitting to sleep . . . he was suddenly bobbed on the face by the servants. Elyot. 3. To cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch. Gold and jewels that I bobbed from him. Shak. 4. To mock or delude; to cheat. To play her pranks, and bob the fool, The shrewish wife began. Turbervile. 5. To cut short; as, to bob the hair, or a horse's tail. Bob, v. i. 1. To have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything. "Bobbing and courtesying." Thackeray. 2. To angle with a bob. See Bob, n., 2 & 3. He ne'er had learned the art to bob For anything but eels. Saxe. To bob at an apple, cherry, etc. to attempt to bite or seize with the mouth an apple, cherry, or other round fruit, while it is swinging from a string or floating in a tug of water.