hob
1a 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.
Machinery. to cut with a hob.
Origin of hob
1Other words from hob
- hob·ber, noun
Words Nearby hob
Other definitions for hob (2 of 2)
a hobgoblin or elf.
Origin of hob
2Other words from hob
- hob·like, adjective
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How to use hob in a sentence
The energy, generated from food and garden waste from the surrounding houses, is supplied to the center’s kitchen hob through a pipe.
We Could Power Our Homes With Food Scraps. Here’s What’s Stopping Us | Dr. Ananya Mukherjee | August 26, 2021 | Singularity HubCan I go hob-nob, maybe make some sweet business connections?
Meeting Merkel, Schmoozing With Charlize: 10 Things You Need to Know About the World Economic Forum in Davos | Winston Ross | January 22, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHe loved hob-nobbing with the great and not-so-great, his emotions vulnerable to flattery—and rejection.
One evening at tea, a copper kettle, with hot water, stood on the hob.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowAnd he's been hob-nobbing with some old friends who have turned up at one of the big hotels—I forget which.
Happy House | Betsey Riddle, Freifrau von Hutten zum Stolzenberg
In the winter Snow-white lit the fire and hung the kettle on the hob.
Grimms' Fairy Tales | The Brothers GrimmFor he too was famous in his own sphere; and in the drawing-room of Wilkins's one celebrity was hob-nobbing with another!
The Regent | E. Arnold BennettThis comes of your princesses, that turn the world upside down, and demean themselves to hob and nob with these black baldicoots!
The Saint's Tragedy | Charles Kingsley
British Dictionary definitions for hob (1 of 2)
/ (hɒb) /
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
(tr) to cut or form with a hob
Origin of hob
1British Dictionary definitions for hob (2 of 2)
/ (hɒb) /
a hobgoblin or elf
a male ferret
raise hob or play hob US informal to cause mischief or disturbance
Origin of hob
2Derived forms of hob
- hoblike, adjective
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