hobs

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hob

1 [hob]

noun, verb, hobbed, hob⋅bing.

–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.

Origin:
1505–15; var. of obs. hub hob (in a fireplace); perh. identical with hub

Related forms:

hobber, noun

2 [hob]

–noun

1.	a hobgoblin or elf.

—Idioms

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.

Origin:
1275–1325; ME, special use of Hob, for Robert or Robin

Related forms:

hoblike, adjective

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hob¹ (hŏb)

A shelf or projection at the back or side of a fireplace, used for keeping food or utensils warm.
A tool used for cutting the teeth of machine parts, as of a gearwheel.

[Origin unknown.]

hob² (hŏb)

[From Middle English Hob, a nickname for Robert, a nickname for Robert.]

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