hob

Plural: hobs

Noun

• (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings
• (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous
• a hard steel edge tool used to cut gears
• a shelf beside an open fire where something can be kept warm
• A kind of cutting tool, used to cut the teeth of a gear.
• The flat projection or iron shelf at the side of a fire grate, where things are put to be kept warm.
• The top cooking surface on a cooker; a cooktop. It typically comprises several cooking elements (often four), also known as 'rings'.
• A rounded peg used as a target in several games, especially in quoits.
• A male ferret.
• The hub of a wheel.
• A fairy; a sprite; an elf; a bogey.
• A countryman; a rustic or yokel.

Verb

Verb Forms: hobbed, hobbing, hobs

• To equip shoes with hobnails.
• cut with a hob
• To create (a gear) by cutting with a hob.
• To engage in the process of cutting gears with a hob.

Examples

• He decided to HOB his old boots, a far less strategic move than HOBBING his opponent’s progress.

Synonyms

brownie, elf, goblin, gremlin, hobgoblin, imp, pixie, pixy, bogger, bogtrotter, boor, bucolic, bydlo, carl, churl, clodhopper, cooktop, corncob, cornhusker, country bumpkin, country cousin, culchie, dubbo, hayseed, hick, hillbilly, hob, hobnail, hog-rubber, honyock, hunk, joskin, lob, promdi, provincial, redneck, rube, rustic, stovetop, woolly back, yokel

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