hob
炉灶,炉子,滚刀,滚筒
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Definitions
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- : 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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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!