Noddy

Noddy

(1): ( n.) A small two-wheeled one-horse vehicle.

(2): ( n.) The arctic fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis). Sometimes also applied to other sea birds.

(3): ( n.) An old game at cards.

(4): ( n.) A simpleton; a fool.

(5): ( n.) Any tern of the genus Anous, as A. stolidus.

(6): ( n.) An inverted pendulum consisting of a short vertical flat spring which supports a rod having a bob at the top; - used for detecting and measuring slight horizontal vibrations of a body to which it is attached.