hob
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For Aimee Ludgate, 29, from Bradford, using an oven or hob in this heat is a no-go.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
On a nearby cooking hob, Brogan is making a chicken curry.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2025
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
Even food residue that collects in the oven or on the hob generates fine particles when burned.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2023
“We’re tolerable, sir, I thank you,” replied Grace, lifting the boiling mess carefully on to the hob: “rather snappish, but not ’rageous.”
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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
During the dinner the chairman did his best to make himself pleasant, and hobbed and nobbed unreservedly with his immediate neighbours....
From The History of "Punch" by M. H. (Marion Harry) Spielmann
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
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
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
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
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
