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quoits
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /k??ts/
- (US) IPA(key): /k??ts/, /kw??ts/
Noun
quoits
- plural of quoit
Noun
quoits (uncountable)
- A competitive game in which players throw rings, aiming to land them over vertical sticks.
Anagrams
- toquis
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hob
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: h?b, IPA(key): /h?b/
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: h?b, IPA(key): /h?b/
- Rhymes: -?b
Etymology 1
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Noun
hob (plural hobs)
- A kind of cutting tool, used to cut the teeth of a gear.
- (historical) The flat projection or iron shelf at the side of a fire grate, where things are put to be kept warm.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Smart to this entry?)
- 1898, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, Book the Second, Chapter V (The Jackal):
- They went into a dingy room lined with books and littered with papers, where there was a blazing fire. A kettle steamed upon the hob, and in the midst of the wreck of papers a table shone, with plenty of wine upon it, and brandy, and rum, and sugar, and lemons.
- (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) The top cooking surface on a cooker; a cooktop. It typically comprises several cooking elements (often four), also known as 'rings'.
- 1913, Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 2
- And the first sound in the house was the bang, bang of the poker against the raker, as Morel smashed the remainder of the coal to make the kettle, which was filled and left on the hob, finally boil.
- 1913, Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 2
- A rounded peg used as a target in several games, especially in quoits.
- A male ferret.
- The hub of a wheel.
- August 31 1776, George Washington, letter to the President of Congress
- the wheels of the carriages sinking up to the hobs rendered it impossible for our whole force to drag them.
- August 31 1776, George Washington, letter to the President of Congress
Synonyms
- (cooking surface): cooktop, stovetop
Translations
Verb
hob (third-person singular simple present hobs, present participle hobbing, simple past and past participle hobbed)
- (transitive) To create (a gear) by cutting with a hob.
- (intransitive) To engage in the process of cutting gears with a hob.
Etymology 2
From Middle English Hob (a diminutive of Robin, an Old French [Term?] diminutive of Robert), through its connection with Robin Goodfellow and (later) the devil. Compare hobgoblin; see robin.
Noun
hob (plural hobs)
- (obsolete) A fairy; a sprite; an elf; a bogey.
- From elves, hobs, and fairies, […] Defend us, good Heaven!
- (obsolete) A countryman; a rustic or yokel.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Nares to this entry?)
Synonyms
- (supernatural creature): See goblin (hostile)
Derived terms
- play hob with, raise hob
References
- hob in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- BHO, BOH, HBO, boh
Danish
Etymology
From Old Danish hob, from Middle Low German h?p, from Proto-Germanic *haupaz (“heap”), cognate with English heap. Late Old Norse hópr and Swedish hop are also borrowed from Low German.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ho??b/, [?ho?b?]
Noun
hob c (singular definite hoben, plural indefinite hobe)
- crowd, multitude (a large amount of people or animals)
- (derogatory) common people
- heap
- (computer science) heap
Inflection
Derived terms
- galaksehob
- hoben (“crowd, heap”, noun)
- hobe (“to heap”, verb)
- til hobe (“together”, adverb)
German
Pronunciation
Verb
hob
- first/third-person singular preterite of heben
Lower Sorbian
Preposition
hob (with accusative)
- Obsolete spelling of wob
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