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hob

[hob] / hɒb /




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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

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

Even food residue that collects in the oven or on the hob generates fine particles when burned.

From Salon Apr. 24, 2023

However, she said he is still shaken by the incident and has disconnected the family's gas hob as the explosion was suspected to be gas related, although this has not been confirmed.

From BBC Mar. 21, 2023

The hob studies my face, then flies off into the night.

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

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

In the scullery, at the end further from the main building, was a small hobbed grate.

From Ambrotox and Limping Dick by Oliver Fleming

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

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

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

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

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




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