hob
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She said: "She was majorly confused it was like the wires were getting crossed in her brain. She would make cold cups of tea and iron shirts on top of the hob."
From BBC ● May 7, 2025
Even food residue that collects in the oven or on the hob generates fine particles when burned.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2023
Food residue that is stuck on the hob will start to burn as soon as the hob is turned on.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2023
The lawsuit accuses Mr. Apkon of trying to regain his influence at the center so he can hob nob with its deep-pocketed donors and leverage those relationships into support for his new nonprofit, Reconsider.
From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2022
Didn’t seem to matter—once more she took me by the hand, and this time led me to a small parlor where she had a fire going, and a kettle on the hob.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
In England Davis hobbed so intimately with the nobs that the P.M.,
From Time Magazine Archive
For perhaps 5,500 years man has started off with molten metal, which he has then cast, forged, rolled, extruded, hammered, machined, hobbed, drilled, milled and ground.
From Time Magazine Archive
For most ascents the usual alpine equipment—ice axes, rope, and hobbed boots or climbing shoes—is essential.
From Grand Teton [Wyoming] National Park by United States Dept. of the Interior
At time-serving Arthur Wolfe's, for instance, Clare hobbed and nobbed with the disaffected; such, that is, as had not gone so far as to frighten the well-meaning attorney-general.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
After the dies are hobbed their front ends should be reamed with a taper reamer as in Fig.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
However, a worry for Ulster was the sight of Williams hobbing off.
From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2013
But she soon found a cure for his passion, By hobbing or nobbing at dinner, With Paris, a Trojan of fashion.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 284, November 24, 1827 by Various
Striking a match, there was his apron shrouding his hobbing foot.
From London River by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson
In hobbing the dies it is necessary that they be all of equal length so that the hob may cut an equal depth in each, and may, therefore, work steadily and hob them true.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
And it's all very well for Larry Twentyman to be hobbing and nobbing with the likes of them Botseys.
From The American Senator by Anthony Trollope
