Hob (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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. 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 or without object), hobbed, hob·bing.
  1. to cut with a hob.
noun
  1. a hobgoblin or elf.
Idioms
  1. to do mischief or harm to: The child played hob with my radio, and now it won't work at all.
  2. to cause a destructive commotion; behave disruptively: They raised such hob with their antagonistic questions that the meeting broke up.
noun
  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
verb hobs, hobbing or hobbed
  1. to cut or form with a hob
noun
  1. a hobgoblin or elf
  2. a male ferret
  3. to cause mischief or disturbance
Hob (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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