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.
3.
a game in which such a peg is used.
4.
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 object), verb (used without object)
5.
Machinery. to cut with a hob.
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noun
Idioms 1.
a hobgoblin or elf.
2.
play hob with, to do mischief or harm to: The child played hob with my radio, and now it won't work at all.
3.
raise hob, to cause a destructive commotion; behave disruptively: They raised such hob with their antagonistic questions that the meeting broke up.
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hob1 (hɒb) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | 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 |
| 3. | a steel pattern used in forming a mould or die in cold metal |
| 4. | a hard steel rotating cutting tool used in machines for cutting gears |
| —vb , hobs, hobbing, hobbed | |
| 5. | (tr) to cut or form with a hob |
| [C16: variant of obsolete hubbe, of unknown origin; perhaps related to | |
| hob2 (hɒb) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a hobgoblin or elf |
| 2. | a male ferret |
| 3. | informal (US) raise hob, play hob to cause mischief or disturbance |
| [C14: variant of Rob, short for Robin or Robert] | |
| 'hoblike2 | |
| —adj | |
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