hob
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Indiana, 15, said: "At one point I was doing maths on a hob in catering. It's not ideal."
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 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
One trick I have found is cooking hard boiled eggs off in the saucepan of my steamer set whilst steaming veg, gas hob cooking.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2022
Then she tidied up the Nursery and put the kettle on the hob.
From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers
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
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
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
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
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
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
Every pitch requires a different tool, and the cutting end is given the curved form by milling or hobbing.
From Turning and Boring A specialized treatise for machinists, students in the industrial and engineering schools, and apprentices, on turning and boring methods, etc. by Franklin D. Jones
