How to pronounce“bab”in English
noundrones against Israel. Well, the Houthis have in the past attacked shipping in the Red Sea and there are fears they could target the
Bab al-Mandab Strait, a vital global shipping route.
Elsewhere, there have been attacks across the region including one on a US military base in Saudi Arabia injuring 12 American troops. This report from our
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Definitions of “bab”
A 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.”
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.”