hob
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Many of us can relate to oil and gas: Filling up the car, putting a pan on the hob.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2025
Food residue that is stuck on the hob will start to burn as soon as the hob is turned on.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2023
The cooker hood removes particles generated from the back rings of a hob more easily than from the front rings, where more pollutants can escape into the room.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2023
The lawsuit accuses Mr. Apkon of trying to regain his influence at the center so he can hob nob with its deep-pocketed donors and leverage those relationships into support for his new nonprofit, Reconsider.
From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2022
At first it seems like an owl, but it’s got hob eyes.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
In England Davis hobbed so intimately with the nobs that the P.M.,
From Time Magazine Archive
For perhaps 5,500 years man has started off with molten metal, which he has then cast, forged, rolled, extruded, hammered, machined, hobbed, drilled, milled and ground.
From Time Magazine Archive
Except for the tramp of a sentry's hobbed boots over the sidewalks and the challenging call of another sentry round the corner the town was as silent as a town of tombs.
From Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
In the scullery, at the end further from the main building, was a small hobbed grate.
From Ambrotox and Limping Dick by Oliver Fleming
After the dies are hobbed their front ends should be reamed with a taper reamer as in Fig.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
However, a worry for Ulster was the sight of Williams hobbing off.
From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2013
Striking a match, there was his apron shrouding his hobbing foot.
From London River by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson
But she soon found a cure for his passion, By hobbing or nobbing at dinner, With Paris, a Trojan of fashion.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 284, November 24, 1827 by Various
Every pitch requires a different tool, and the cutting end is given the curved form by milling or hobbing.
From Turning and Boring A specialized treatise for machinists, students in the industrial and engineering schools, and apprentices, on turning and boring methods, etc. by Franklin D. Jones
They include office buildings, workshops for hobbing, heat-treating, grinding and polishing cog-wheels and the complete gear transmissions.
From Zeppelin The Story of a Great Achievement by Harry Vissering
