hob
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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
A specialist wok hob had also been delivered to the hotel’s kitchen.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2024
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
He heads outside to say something to the hob holding the reins.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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In England Davis hobbed so intimately with the nobs that the P.M.,
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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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 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 Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
In the scullery, at the end further from the main building, was a small hobbed grate.
From Ambrotox and Limping Dick by Oliver Fleming
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
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