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Bobber   /bˈɑbər/   Listen
Bobber

noun
1.
A small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line.  Synonyms: bob, bobfloat, cork.






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"Bobber" Quotes from Famous Books



... at us again, then down at Petey. Then he pumped Petey's arm until the latter danced like a cork bobber. ...
— At Good Old Siwash • George Fitch

... want to go to Garry On the toot-toot, toot-toot, You and I together On the toot-toot, toot-toot. Go run and ask your mother For some kind of cake or other, And a bit of cotton wadding For your ball-suit. Get your bobber and a bat, And be back as quick as scat, For we've got to go to Garry On ...
— The Peter Patter Book of Nursery Rhymes • Leroy F. Jackson

... whose surname was Finch, was employed at the beginning of the last century at Holy Trinity Church, Warrington, as a "bobber," or sluggard-waker[81]. She was the wife of the clerk, and was well fitted on account of her masculine form to perform this duty which usually fell to the lot of the parish clerk. She used to perambulate the church armed with a long rod, like a fishing-rod, ...
— The Parish Clerk (1907) • Peter Hampson Ditchfield

... to feel that ecstacy that only comes to a boy when the bottle cork you used for a bobber goes under water, when something is pulling on the line like a scared mule, bending double the pole cut in the thicket on your way to the creek. I want to throw the pole away, roll up the tangled line, hide it away in the corn crib, and sneak back to the house the opposite direction from the ...
— Watch Yourself Go By • Al. G. Field



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