[f. prec. vb.] The movement of agitated water.
1880. Besant & Rice, Seamy Side, xxviii. 236. Outside Swanage Bay there is always what the jocose captain of the Heather Bell calls a ‘bit of a bobble.’
1884. St. James’s Gaz., 22 March, 6/2. There’ll be a pretty bobble up across tide afore we get under the land.
