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[hob] / hɒb /




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Don't forget fruit and vegetables - the latter can be cooked with a steamer on one hob, rather than using different ones.

From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2025

"When they put the island back in, they broke the hob so then they had to go get a new hob."

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2024

The cooker hood removes particles generated from the back rings of a hob more easily than from the front rings, where more pollutants can escape into the room.

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

Sitting on the balcony is the owl-faced hob.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

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

In England Davis hobbed so intimately with the nobs that the P.M.,

From Time Magazine Archive

In their big rawhide boots, with hobbed soles and steel-shod heels, they pounded back and forth, while the others whooped them on.

From Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

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

Except for the tramp of a sentry's hobbed boots over the sidewalks and the challenging call of another sentry round the corner the town was as silent as a town of tombs.

From Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

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

They include office buildings, workshops for hobbing, heat-treating, grinding and polishing cog-wheels and the complete gear transmissions.

From Zeppelin The Story of a Great Achievement by Harry Vissering

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


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