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
Many of us can relate to oil and gas: Filling up the car, putting a pan on the hob.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2025
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
“We’re tolerable, sir, I thank you,” replied Grace, lifting the boiling mess carefully on to the hob: “rather snappish, but not ’rageous.”
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
In England Davis hobbed so intimately with the nobs that the P.M.,
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
During the dinner the chairman did his best to make himself pleasant, and hobbed and nobbed unreservedly with his immediate neighbours....
From The History of "Punch" by M. H. (Marion Harry) Spielmann
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
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
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
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