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hob

[hob] / hɒb /




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A specialist wok hob had also been delivered to the hotel’s kitchen.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2024

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

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

From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2023

Then she tidied up the Nursery and put the kettle on the hob.

From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers

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

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

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

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

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


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