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hob1

[hob] /hɒb/
noun
1.
a projection or shelf at the back or side of a fireplace, used for keeping food warm.
2.
a rounded peg or pin used as a target in quoits and similar games.
3.
a game in which such a peg is used.
4.
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.
verb (used with or without object), hobbed, hobbing.
5.
Machinery. to cut with a hob.
Origin of hob1
1505-1515
1505-15; variant of obsolete hub hob (in a fireplace); perhaps identical with hub
Related forms
hobber, noun
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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 3 Mary Elizabeth Braddon
British Dictionary definitions for hobbed

hob1

/hɒb/
noun
1.
(Brit) the flat top part of a cooking stove, or a separate flat surface, containing hotplates or burners
2.
a shelf beside an open fire, for keeping kettles, etc, hot
3.
a steel pattern used in forming a mould or die in cold metal
4.
a hard steel rotating cutting tool used in machines for cutting gears
verb hobs, hobbing, hobbed
5.
(transitive) to cut or form with a hob
Word Origin
C16: variant of obsolete hubbe, of unknown origin; perhaps related to hub

hob2

/hɒb/
noun
1.
a hobgoblin or elf
2.
a male ferret
3.
(US, informal) raise hob, play hob, to cause mischief or disturbance
Derived Forms
hoblike, adjective
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.

Hob

n.

"clown, prankster," short for hobgoblin (q.v.). Hence, to play (the) hob "make mischief" (by 1834).

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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