hob
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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
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
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
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
In the scullery, at the end further from the main building, was a small hobbed grate.
From Ambrotox and Limping Dick by Oliver Fleming
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
However, a worry for Ulster was the sight of Williams hobbing off.
From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2013
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
Striking a match, there was his apron shrouding his hobbing foot.
From London River by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson
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
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
