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hob

/hob/US // hɒb //UK // (hɒb) //

炉灶,炉子,滚刀,滚筒

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.
  1. 1

    hobbed, hob·bing.

    • : Machinery. to cut with a hob.

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Examples

  • The energy, generated from food and garden waste from the surrounding houses, is supplied to the center’s kitchen hob through a pipe.

  • Can I go hob-nob, maybe make some sweet business connections?

  • He 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.

  • And he's been hob-nobbing with some old friends who have turned up at one of the big hotels—I forget which.

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

  • For he too was famous in his own sphere; and in the drawing-room of Wilkins's one celebrity was hob-nobbing with another!

  • This comes of your princesses, that turn the world upside down, and demean themselves to hob and nob with these black baldicoots!