hob1
[hob]
- a projection or shelf at the back or side of a fireplace, used for keeping food warm.
- a rounded peg or pin used as a target in quoits and similar games.
- a game in which such a peg is used.
- Machinery. a milling cutter for gear and sprocket teeth, splines, threads, etc., having helically arranged teeth and fed across the work as the work is rotated.
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- Machinery. to cut with a hob.
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Origin of hob1
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I have hobbed and nobbed with my friends in most of their rat-traps, and know the geography of them.
Mohawks, Volume 3 of 3Mary Elizabeth Braddon
hob1
- British the flat top part of a cooking stove, or a separate flat surface, containing hotplates or burners
- a shelf beside an open fire, for keeping kettles, etc, hot
- a steel pattern used in forming a mould or die in cold metal
- a hard steel rotating cutting tool used in machines for cutting gears
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- (tr) to cut or form with a hob
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Word Origin
C16: variant of obsolete hubbe, of unknown origin; perhaps related to hub
hob2
- a hobgoblin or elf
- a male ferret
- raise hob or play hob US informal to cause mischief or disturbance
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Word Origin
C14: variant of Rob, short for Robin or Robert
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Word Origin and History for hobbed
hob
n.
"side of fireplace," 1670s, alteration of hubbe (1510s), of unknown origin, perhaps somehow related to the first element in hobnail.
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Hob
n.
"clown, prankster," short for hobgoblin (q.v.). Hence, to play (the) hob "make mischief" (by 1834).
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