Definition of Bobwheel

1. a poetic device using a short line [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bobwheel

bobsledded
bobsledder
bobsledders
bobsledding
bobsleddings
bobsleds
bobsleigh
bobsleighs
bobstays
bobtail
bobtailed
bobtailing
bobtails
bobweight
bobwheel (current term)
bobwheels
bobwhite
bobwhite quail
bobwhites
bobwig
bobwigs
bobèche
bocaccio
bocaccios
bocage
bocages
bocal
bocals
bocasine

Literary usage of Bobwheel

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Scottish Vernacular Literature: A Succinct History by Thomas Finlayson Henderson (1898)
"36-38) in the formation of the bobwheel, the bob, which introduces a new rhyme, being a full hemistich. Here is an example:— ' And for to brew and baik ..."

2. A Little Book of Scottish Verse by Thomas Finlayson Henderson (1899)
"... while the stave is also more complex, the last five lines forming a bobwheel. STILL under the levis grene, This hinder day,4 I went alone: I heard ane ..."

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