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DOBBER

Definition: DOBBER

DOBBER

Noun

1. A float to a fishing line.

2. See Dabchick.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

"DOBBER" is a common misspelling or typo for: cobber, dabber, dabbler, dauber, dibber, dubbed, jobber, robber.


Specialty Definition: DOBBER

DomainDefinition

Occupations

A device with serrated edge which separates strands of yarn and keeps them parallel. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DOBBER

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

dirt dobber

29

dobber mud

10

dobber

8

dobber mud wasp

5

dirt dobber wasp

3

bike dirt dobber mini

3

dirt dobber insect

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: DOBBER

Language Translations for "DOBBER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Ukrainian

  

поплавець (bobber, float, pontoon, swimmer). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: DOBBER

Derivations

Words beginning with "DOBBER": dobbers. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: DOBBER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: robbed.

Words within the letters "b-b-d-e-o-r"

-1 letter: bored, orbed, robed.

-2 letters: bode, bore, bred, doer, dore, redo, robe, rode.

-3 letters: bed, bob, bod, bro, deb, doe, dor, ebb, obe, ode, orb, ore, reb, red, rob, rod, roe.

-4 letters: be, bo, de, do, ed, er, od, oe, or, re.

 Words containing the letters "b-b-d-e-o-r"
 

+1 letter: berobed, dobbers.

 

+2 letters: absorbed, breadbox, ribboned, throbbed.

 

+3 letters: baseboard, belabored, bombarded, bowerbird, clobbered, outbribed, slobbered.

 

+4 letters: aboveboard, adsorbable, bargeboard, baseboards, belaboured, beribboned, bobsledder, bombardier, bookbinder, bowerbirds, breadboard, breadboxes, fiberboard, fibreboard, firebombed, overdubbed, reabsorbed, unabsorbed.

 

+5 letters: bargeboards, beaverboard, billboarded, boatbuilder, bobsledders, bodybuilder, bombardiers, bombardment, bookbinders, bookbindery, breadboards, fiberboards, fibreboards, outthrobbed, overdubbing, redoubtable, redoubtably.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

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Alternative Orthography: DOBBER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 4F 42 42 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    ---    -...    -...    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01001111 01000010 01000010 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#79 &#66 &#66 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 004F 0042 0042 0045 0052

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

384936363952

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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