Hobn.1
/hɒb/, U.S. /hɑb/ 1. A familiar or rustic variation of the Christian name Robert or Robin. Hence formerly a generic name for: A rustic, a clown. Cf. Hodge n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > rustic or peasant
tillman940
churla1000
ploughman1223
bondmanc1250
bondc1275
ploughswain1296
countrymanc1300
boundec1320
Hobc1325
charla1400
landmana1400
Jack (John) Upland1402
carlc1405
bowerc1430
peasanta1450
rurala1475
agrest1480
bergier1480
carlleina1500
rustical?1532
ploughboy1544
boor1548
rusticc1550
kern1556
tillsman1561
clown1563
Jocka1568
Jock upalanda1568
John Uponlanda1568
russet coat1568
rustican1570
hind?1577
swain1579
Corydon1581
mountain man1587
Phillis1589
sylvan1589
russeting1597
Joan1598
stubble boy1598
paysan1609
carlota1616
swainling1615
raiyat1625
contadino1630
under-swaina1644
high shoe1647
boorinn1649
Bonhomme1660
high-shoon-man1664
countrywoman1679
villan1685
russet gown1694
ruralist1739
paysanne1748
bauer1799
bonderman1804
bodach1830
contadina1835
agrestian1837
peasantess1841
country jake1845
rufus1846
bonder1848
hayseed1851
bucolic1862
agricole1882
country jay1888
child (son, etc.) of the soil1891
hillbilly1900
palouser1903
kisan1935
woop woop1936
swede-basher1943
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [noun]
churlc1275
Hobc1325
Hodgec1386
charla1400
carlc1405
peasanta1450
hoggler1465
agrest1480
hoggener1488
rustical?1532
boor1548
rusticc1550
kern1556
clown1563
Jocka1568
John Uponlanda1568
russet coat1568
rustican1570
hind?1577
Corydon1581
gaffer1589
gran1591
russeting1597
dunghill1608
hog rubber1611
carlota1616
high shoe1647
Bonhomme1660
high-shoon-man1664
cot1695
ruralist1739
Johnnya1774
Harry1796
bodach1830
bucolic1862
cafone1872
bogman1891
country bookie1904
desi1907
middle peasant1929
woodchuck1931
swede-basher1943
moegoe1953
shit-kicker1961
c1325 Pol. Songs (Camden) 216 Now Kyng Hobbe [= Sire Robert the Bruytz] in the mures ȝongeth, For te come to toune nout him ne longeth.
1399 W. Langland Richard Redeles i. 90 Oþer hobbis ȝe hadden of hurlewaynis kynne.
1549 T. Chaloner tr. Erasmus Praise of Folie sig. Dijv The rudest hobbe that maie be piked from the plough.
1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry f. 7 To rayse betimes vp readely, both snorting Hob & Margerie.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xxii. 808/2 Hob, Dic, and Hic, (meaning the Rusticks).
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. iii. 116 To begge of Hob and Dicke, that does appeere Their needlesse Vouches. View more context for this quotation
1682 ‘T. Rationalis’ New News from Bedlam 11 More fitter for the Country Hobs.
1778 Saints 5 And Priests with Hob go Snacks and share the Field.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Hob..also a clown; contracted from Robin.
2.
a. = Robin Goodfellow or Puck; a hobgoblin, sprite, elf. (See also hob-thrush n.)
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > fairy or elf > [noun] > imp, goblin, or hobgoblin
thursec725
puckOE
puckleOE
goblina1350
hurlewaynes kin1399
Hoba1500
bogle?1507
chimera?1521
hobgoblin1530
chyppynutie?1553
bearbug1560
boggard1570
bugbear?c1570
empusa1572
puckerelc1580
puck bug1582
imp1584
urchin1584
fear-babea1586
hob-thrush1590
hodge-poker1598
lar1598
poker1598
bogle-bo1603
mormo1605
foliot1621
mormolukee1624
buggle-boo1625
pug1631
black man1656
feind1659
Tom Poker1673
duende1691
boodie?a1700
worricow1711
bolly1724
Tom Po1744
fleying1811
pooka1824
booger1827
alp1828
boll1847
bogy1857
beastie1867
boogie1880
shag boy1882
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. ii. 20 Whi, who is that hob ouer the wall? We! who was that that piped so small?
1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Glendower viii Merlyn fathered by an Hob.
c1580 tr. Bugbears iii. iii, in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1897) 99 Puckes, puckerels, hob howlard..and Robin Good-felow.
a1625 J. Fletcher Monsieur Thomas (1639) iv. vi. sig. K3 From Elves, Hobs, and Fayries, That trouble our Dayries..Defend us Heaven!
1627 M. Drayton Nimphidia in Battaile Agincourt 126 Yet much they doubted there to stay, Lest Hob should hap to finde them.
1891 J. C. Atkinson Forty Years Moorland Parish 65 If there was a ‘weight of work’ craving to be done.. Hob would come unasked, unwarned to the rescue.
b. to play hob: to ‘play the devil’, work mischief. Also to raise hob. Chiefly U.S.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > cause or effect (harm) [verb (transitive)]
visita1382
watcha1586
wreak1817
to play hob1838
to raise hob1911
1838 N.-Y. Mirror 2 June 387/1 They say it's playing hob with the fellers in these here parts.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxvi. 213 I need not say that the cold metal played hob with the tinkers.
1905 B. Tarkington In Arena 23 I believe that idiot's right, he won't lose votes by playing hob with us.
1911 J. C. Lincoln Cap'n Warren's Wards vi. 88 Theoph's been raising hob because the Odd Fellows built on to their building.
1916 H. L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap iii. 120 He looked like one of them silly little critters that play hob with Rip Van Winkle..before he goes to sleep.
1927 P. Marks Lord of Himself xvi. 244 Carl parked the car and stowed the flask in the door-pocket before speaking, and then he murmured sympathetically, ‘It [sc. liquor] played hob with you, didn't it, old girl?’
1935 M. de la Roche Young Renny xxv. 219 It's the food you eat without enjoyment that plays hob with your stomach.
1940 D. A. Lord Our Lady in Mod. World iii. 141 The revolutionists who are playing hob with our generation are really masters of the obsolete.
1949 Chicago Tribune 14 June ii. 1/1 The change in time on the new quiz programs is raising hob with getting the evening chores finished.
1967 Electronics 6 Mar. 352/2 The Chinese presumably could raise hob..with vlf transmission to submarines from the base at North West Cape.
3. A name for the male ferret. Also hob-ferret.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Mustelidae (weasel, marten, otter, or badger) > [noun] > genus Mustela (weasel) > mustela furo (ferret) > male
Hob1688
buck1904
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 136/1 The male..Ferret [is] the Hob.
1882 W. Worc. Gloss. Hob-ferret, a male ferret. [In Staffordshire the male of a ferret is called ‘the hob’, the female ‘the gill’.]
Compounds
attributive and in other combinations.† hob-clunch n. Obsolete a rustic, country person. † hoblob n. Obsolete a rustic, clown: see lob n.2
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the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > rustic or peasant > ignorant
chuffc1440
lob1533
lobcocka1556
hick1565
bumpkin1570
swad1572
hob-clunch1578
hoblob1582
clubhutchen1584
gran1591
bacon1598
boor1598
hobbinol1600
homespun1600
lob-coat1604
loblolly1604
hobnail1645
bacon-slicer1653
jobson1660
hob-thrush1682
country put1688
put1688
clodhopper1699
bumpkinet1714
joskin1811
yokel1819
whopstraw1821
chaw-bacon1822
lobeline1844
farmer1864
sheepshagger1958
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [noun] > rude or ignorant
chuffc1440
mobarda1450
lob1533
lobcocka1556
clown1565
hick1565
bumpkin1570
swad1572
peasant1576
hob-clunch1578
hoblob1582
clubhutchen1584
bacon1598
boor1598
hobbinol1600
homespun1600
loblolly lamb1600
lob-coat1604
loblolly1604
hobnail1645
champkina1652
bacon-slicer1653
jobson1660
hob-thrush1682
country put1688
put1688
country cousin1692
clodhopper1699
hawbuck1787
Johnny Raw1803
joskin1811
yokel1819
whopstraw1821
chaw-bacon1822
lobeline1844
country jake1845
Hoosier1846
hayseed1851
Reuben1855
scissorbill1876
agricole1882
country jay1888
rube1891
jasper1896
farmer1903
stump jumper1936
woop woop1936
potato head1948
no-neck1961
1578 G. Whetstone Promos & Cassandra: 2nd Pt. iii. ii. sig. Iiij Ra. What bytest thou, hobclunch? Iohn. Yea, that chull and punch.
Hob Collingwood n. (see quot.).
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] > card of specific number and suit > four of hearts at whist
Hob Collingwood1825
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > whist > [noun] > type of card > four of hearts
Hob Collingwood1825
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Hob Collinwood, the name given to the four of Hearts at whist.
1829 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words (new ed.) Hob Collingwood..the four of hearts at whist; considered by old ladies an unlucky card.
hob-ferret n. (see 3).
hob-lantern n. (also hobby-lantern) a Will-o'-the-wisp.
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the world > matter > light > light emitted under particular conditions > [noun] > phosphorescence > will-o'-the-wisp
fox-fire1483
foolish fire1563
ignis fatuus1563
fool's fire1583
Kit with the canstick or candlestick1584
going fire1596
will-o'-the-wisp1596
meteor1597
firedrake1607
wisp1618
ambulones1621
Dick-a-Tuesday1636
friar's lantern1645
gillian burnt-tail1654
Jill-burnt-tail1654
Jack-o'-lantern1658
fatuous fire1661
wildfire1663
wandering fire or light1667
Jack-a-Lent1680
fairy light1722
spunkie1727
Jill-o'-the-wisp1750
fen-fire1814
fatuus1820
marsh-light1823
feu follet1832
wisp-lighta1847
hob-lantern1847
ghost light1849
elf-fire1855
Peggy-with-her-lantern1855
fatuous light1857–8
marsh-fire1865
swamp fire1903
Min-Min1950
1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Hobby-lanthorn, an ignis fatuus. Also termed a Hob~lantern. Var. dial.
hob-like adj. rustic, clownish, boorish:
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Rude, rude..hoblike, lumpish, loblike.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > rustic or peasant > ignorant
chuffc1440
lob1533
lobcocka1556
hick1565
bumpkin1570
swad1572
hob-clunch1578
hoblob1582
clubhutchen1584
gran1591
bacon1598
boor1598
hobbinol1600
homespun1600
lob-coat1604
loblolly1604
hobnail1645
bacon-slicer1653
jobson1660
hob-thrush1682
country put1688
put1688
clodhopper1699
bumpkinet1714
joskin1811
yokel1819
whopstraw1821
chaw-bacon1822
lobeline1844
farmer1864
sheepshagger1958
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [noun] > rude or ignorant
chuffc1440
mobarda1450
lob1533
lobcocka1556
clown1565
hick1565
bumpkin1570
swad1572
peasant1576
hob-clunch1578
hoblob1582
clubhutchen1584
bacon1598
boor1598
hobbinol1600
homespun1600
loblolly lamb1600
lob-coat1604
loblolly1604
hobnail1645
champkina1652
bacon-slicer1653
jobson1660
hob-thrush1682
country put1688
put1688
country cousin1692
clodhopper1699
hawbuck1787
Johnny Raw1803
joskin1811
yokel1819
whopstraw1821
chaw-bacon1822
lobeline1844
country jake1845
Hoosier1846
hayseed1851
Reuben1855
scissorbill1876
agricole1882
country jay1888
rube1891
jasper1896
farmer1903
stump jumper1936
woop woop1936
potato head1948
no-neck1961
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 69 Foorth with thee rustical hoblobs.
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 8 The draffe of the carterly Hoblobs.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
hobn.2
1.
a. (Formerly also hub.) In a fireplace: the part of the casing having a surface level with the top of the grate.In its simplest form it appears to have been a boss or mass of clay behind the fire, the ‘back of the chimney’ or ‘grate’; afterwards, the brick or stone back and sides of a grate; now, usually, the iron-plated sides of a small grate, on which things may be set to warm.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for heating buildings, rooms, etc. > hearth or fireplace > hob or hob-stone
hob1511
hub1511
stock1596
hud-stone1697
hud-end1828
1511 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 332 Makyng of an hubbe in the ketchyn.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xii. 54 Soot taken off from the hub of the chimney.
1674 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 26 Hob, the back of the Chimney.
1772 in Brand's Observ. Pop. Antiq. (1813) II. 243 (note) Ordering their cupfuls to be placed on the Hob of the Grate.
1801 Trans. Soc. Arts 19 325 The hobbs..project two inches and a half before the fire-grate.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Hob, Hub..2. The flat ends of a kitchen range, or of a Bath-stove; not the back..Saucepans, tea-kettles, etc. are set upon the hub.
a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 201 If he puts up his feet on the hob.
1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. xviii. 421 In the manor-houses..and still more in the cottages of the poor, the fire was made against a hob of clay.
b. One of the level supports on the top of a stove over which pots and pans, etc., are placed to be heated, etc.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > stove or cooker > [noun] > part of
hotplate1803
firebox1838
range cock1842
hearth1845
boiling ring1894
griller1895
grill1907
ring1911
cooktop1941
hob1962
back burner1963
splashplate1967
1962 Listener 13 Sept. 411/2 The gas-cooker hobs have four self-lighting burners.
1962 Listener 13 Sept. 411/3 Centre hob-grill.
1969–70 Catal. Belling Electric Heating & Cooking 59 No need to worry if anything boils over... No need to..take the pans off to lift the hob to get at the mess. Simply slide out the spillage tray from under the hob and clean it at the sink.
2. A (rounded) peg or pin used as a mark or target in games; esp. one of the iron pins used in quoits. Also: a game in which these are used.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > quoits > [noun] > peg
hob1589
block1598
pin1763
tee1789
pinhead1897
1589 ‘Marphoreus’ Martins Months Minde To Rdr. sig. C3v Leauing the obscurer hobbs that first they began with, to shoote a maine for the vpshot, at the fairest markes of all.
1676 W. Wycherley Plain-dealer i, in Dramatic Wks. (1840) 105/2 To tell your honour the truth, we were at hob in the hall, and whilst my brother and I were quarrelling about a cast, he slunk by us.
1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod ii. ii. 69 Stand at one of the iron marks and throw an equal number of quoits to the other, and the nearest of them to the hob are reckoned towards the game.
1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Hob, a small piece of wood of a cylindrical form, used by boys to set up on end, to put half-pence on to chuck or pitch at with another half~penny.
1855 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports (1859) 510 The Game [Quoits] is played by driving two hobs into the ground at the distance agreed upon [etc.].
1883 T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield Hob, the name of a stone used in various games, such as ‘cots and twys’, for placing the stakes upon, or in ‘duckstone’.
3. (Also hub.) ‘A hardened, threaded spindle, by which a comb or chasing-tool may be cut’ (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech.). Also: a master tap.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > other specific machine tools > [noun] > machine for cutting screw-threads > tools
screw tool1797
chaser1847
hob1873
1873 C. P. B. Shelley Workshop Appliances (1883) iii. 100 Instruments, known as hobs, are also employed in forming the cutting ends of screw-chasing tools for use in the lathe.
1881 F. Campin Pract. Treat. Mech. Engin. 49 The taps used for making screw tools and worm wheels are called hobs.
a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 458/2 Hob, a hardened steel mandrel with a threaded portion which is fluted.
1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. 178 Hob, or Hub, a master tap.
4. The shoe of a sledge.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on runners > [noun] > runner of
runner1747
skate1781
hob1788
ox-runner1834
bob1857
1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 335 Hob, the shoe or soal [sole] of a sledge.
1852 G. H. Andrews Agric. Engin. III. 41 A long thick log of wood, which slides upon the ground as the hob or shoe of a sledge.
5. Short for hobnail n. Also dialect. hob-prick.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > parts of footwear > [noun] > protective studs or plates > for sole
hobnail1594
hob1686
clout-nail1874
screw-in1969
1686 S. Sewall Letter-bk. 34 The Hobs and blew Linnin received per Foy.
1687 S. Sewall Letter-bk. 64 The remainder in naills, viz: one halfe 10d, one fourth 8d, and one fourth part in 2 and 3d hobbs and 4d naills.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Hob-prick, a wooden peg driven into the heels of shoes.
1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. xix. 222 He now wears shining boots with hardly a hob in 'em.
Compounds
hob-grate n. a grate fitted with a hob or hobs.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for heating buildings, rooms, etc. > hearth or fireplace > grate
grate1605
fire grate1620
purgatory1707
stove-grate1730
stovea1756
ash-grate1833
basket-grate1889
well-fire1895
well grate1898
hob-grate1915
combination grate1940
1915 C. Mackenzie Guy & Pauline i. 53 Guy sat by the small hob-grate.
1959 Times 27 Jan. 10/6 He sat erect in a tall wooden chair beside a hobgrate.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
hobv.1
local.
transitive. To cut the high tufts of grass in a pasture, or those left or missed in ordinary mowing. See quots.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > harvest (a crop) [verb (transitive)] > reap or mow a crop > cut long tufts of grass
hob1799
1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln 196 Beasts are changed while hobbing is done; and the sooner it is hobbed the better.
1863 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. (new ed.) II. (Gloss.) 723/3 Hobbing (Linc.), mowing the high tufts of grass in a pasture.
1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield Hob, to cut pieces of grass left untouched in hedge bottoms, etc., by a mowing machine, or by the ordinary scythe. A farmer will say..‘Hob the hedge bottoms’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
hobv.2
dialect.
transitive. To bring up (a young animal) by hand.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > rear animals [verb (transitive)] > hand-rear
to bring up (also rear) (an animal) on the finger1607
hob1793
mud1814
hand-rear1846
poddy1896
1793 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Sussex 75 When they are a fortnight old, the calf is hobbed upon skim milk.
1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. (at cited word) Two little pigs which she was hobbing-up.
Compounds
hob-lamb n. a lamb reared by hand.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > lamb > pet lamb
cadec1450
pet1539
house lamb1574
cosset1579
sock-lamb1838
hob-lamb1847
poddy1983
1847 in J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words
1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. Hob-lamb, a pet lamb, brought up by hand.
1893 in Surrey Gloss.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
hobv.3
dialect.
transitive. To furnish with hobnails.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > make footwear [verb (transitive)] > stud with nails
cloutc1394
hobnail1649
hob1874
tacket1896
1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. iv. 38 I went into Griffin's to have my boots hobbed.
a1935 T. E. Lawrence Mint (1955) iii. i. 166 Marching boots so hobbed that every pavement became a skating rink.
Derivatives
ˈhobber n. one employed in driving hobnails into boots.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > [noun] > processes involved in > driving in tacks or nails > one who
sprigger1864
tackler1891
hobber1921
1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §429 Hobber..drives in hobnails round rims of soles of heavy boots, by hand with a hammer.
ˈhobbing n. the action of hobnailing boots and shoes: hobbing boot = hobbing foot; hobbing foot local a shoemaker's last.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > [noun] > equipment or materials for > equipment > last
tree1541
boot-last1611
shoe-last1647
boot-tree1766
shoe-tree1827
hobbing foot1866
shoe-stretcher1875
hobbing boot1907
1866 R. Hallam Wadsley Jack vii. 36 Thie fooit..weean't skar me—noa, not if it wor a hobbin fooit.
1907 Daily Chron. 8 Jan. 6/2 The woman was struck on the head by a shoemaker's ‘hobbing foot’.
1907 Daily Chron. 31 Jan. 6/7 He struck his wife on the head with an iron foot—a shoemaker's hobbing boot.
1922 G. Blair Haunted Dominie 43 There's some that skimp the hammerin' upon the hobbin'-feet.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
hobv.4
/hɒb/, U.S. /hɑb/ transitive. To cut or form by means of a hob or master tap.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > furnish with wheel(s) [verb (transitive)] > cut wheels or gears
hob1892
1892 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. (ed. 2) App. 428.
Derivatives
ˈhobbing n.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > [noun] > other tools or equipment
filinga1398
shovellingc1440
stamp1598
routing1846
stropping1850
beetling1859
screwdriving1864
lapping machine1877
lapping plate1877
side milling1878
broaching1888
hobbing1930
1930 Engineering 17 Oct. 479/1 The defects of the present hobbing process of producing gear wheels.
1950 Engineering 18 Aug. 145/3 The majority of spur and helical gears are produced by hobbing.
hobbing cutter n. (see quot. 1940).
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1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 418/1 Hobbing cutter, a gear-cutting tool resembling a milling cutter or a worm gear, whose thread is interrupted by grooves so as to form cutting faces.
hobbing machine n. a machine in which worm-wheels, spur and spiral gears are cut by means of a hob or master tap.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > other specific machine tools > [noun] > machine for cutting screw-threads
worming machine1866
hobbing machine1913
1913 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. (ed. 4) App. 439 Hobbing Machines. In these, spur and spiral gears as well as worm wheels are cut by a hob, the same hob serving for each type of gear by altering the angle of inclination of the thread.
1943 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 47 83 A hobbing machine with a properly designed solid master worm wheel will cut accurate and quiet-running gears.
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