hob

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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.

  1. a game in which such a peg is used.

  2. 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, hob·bing.
  1. Machinery. to cut with a hob.

Origin of hob

1
First recorded in 1505–15; variant of obsolete hub “hob (in a fireplace)”; perhaps identical with hub

Other words from hob

  • hob·ber, noun

Words Nearby hob

Other definitions for hob (2 of 2)

hob2
[ hob ]

noun
  1. a hobgoblin or elf.

Origin of hob

2
First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English, special use of Hob(be), for Robert or Robin

Other words from hob

  • hob·like, adjective

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How to use hob in a sentence

  • In the winter Snow-white lit the fire and hung the kettle on the hob.

    Grimms' Fairy Tales | The Brothers Grimm
  • For 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 Bennett
  • This 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)

hob1

/ (hɒb) /


noun
  1. British 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

  1. a steel pattern used in forming a mould or die in cold metal

  2. a hard steel rotating cutting tool used in machines for cutting gears

verbhobs, hobbing or hobbed
  1. (tr) to cut or form with a hob

Origin of hob

1
C16: variant of obsolete hubbe, of unknown origin; perhaps related to hub

British Dictionary definitions for hob (2 of 2)

hob2

/ (hɒb) /


noun
  1. a hobgoblin or elf

  2. a male ferret

  1. raise hob or play hob US informal to cause mischief or disturbance

Origin of hob

2
C14: variant of Rob, short for Robin or Robert

Derived forms of hob

  • hoblike, adjective

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