LekhoriLekhoriA baby.
A bait for eels, consisting of a bundle of live worms.
The worms were threaded onto the yarn until we had 4 or 5 feet of big juicy worms threaded through. We would coil it all up and put an old rusty nut at the centre and tie it on a bit of string on an old ash pole — this was the bab.
Initialism of blame avoidance behavior
To fish for eels using a bab.
The babbers follow the eels, and you may see fifteen boats as close together as possible, babbing away, and catching as much as four stone-weight of eels per boat of a night.
Alternative form of the Báb.
Synonym of Set (“Egyptian god”).
Clipping of babby (“baby”).
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