[f. BOB sb.1 + -ED2.] Furnished with a BOB (in various senses); formed into a bob; cut short (as a horse’s tail).
1658. J. Robinson, Eudoxa, III. 130. Frogs … are … metamorphosed into another shape … from tailed to bobbed.
1675. Lond. Gaz., No. 999/4. A white Mane shorn, white Tail bob’d. Ibid. (1696), No. 3201/4. A Bright Bay Nag … with … a shorn Main and bob’d Tail.
