Usually means: Platform for cooking on stove.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. hob: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hob: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hob, hob: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hob: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hob: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hob, hob: Wordnik
  7. hob: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Hob, hob: Wiktionary
  9. hob: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hob: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hob: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hob, hob: Dictionary.com
  13. Hob, hob: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Hob (disambiguation), Hob (folklore), Hob (hearth), Hob (video game), Hob: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Hob: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. hob: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. hob: Rhymezone
  18. hob: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. hob: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Hob: Britih-American Dictionary
  21. hob: Free Dictionary
  22. hob: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. hob: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. hob: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hob: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. HOB: MedFriendly Glossary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. hob: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. HOB: Acronym Finder
  3. HOB: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. hob: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bryological (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hob: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. H.O.B, HoB: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

(Note: See hobbed as well.)

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noun:  A kind of cutting tool, used to cut the teeth of a gear.
noun:  (historical) The flat projection or iron shelf at the side of a fire grate, where things are put to be kept warm.
noun:  (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) The top cooking surface on a cooker; a cooktop. It typically comprises several cooking elements (often four), also known as 'rings'.
noun:  A rounded peg used as a target in several games, especially in quoits.
noun:  A male ferret.
noun:  The hub of a wheel.
verb:  (transitive) To create (a gear) by cutting with a hob.
verb:  (intransitive) To engage in the process of cutting gears with a hob.
noun:  (obsolete) A fairy; a sprite; an elf; a bogey.
noun:  (obsolete) A countryman; a rustic or yokel.
noun:  (obsolete) A nickname for Robin or Robert
noun:  (archaic) A nickname for Robin Goodfellow, Puck; (later) the devil
noun:  A surname originating as a patronymic.

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