hob
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Even food residue that collects in the oven or on the hob generates fine particles when burned.
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
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
It’s almost all cooked in one roasting tin in the oven, so you’ll be saving washing up and using your hob less, too.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2022
It is a hob who comes forward this time, in a dapper little suit, carefully sewn.
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 Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)
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 Wingfield, Lewis
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 Interior, United States Dept. of the
However, a worry for Ulster was the sight of Williams hobbing off.
From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2013
Striking a match, there was his apron shrouding his hobbing foot.
From London River by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)
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 Vissering, Harry
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 Trollope, Anthony
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 Jones, Franklin D.
