hob

Meanings

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

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

Synonyms

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