Hob

(noun.) a shelf beside an open fire where something can be kept warm.

(noun.) a hard steel edge tool used to cut gears.

(verb.) cut with a hob.

凯瑟琳编辑

• A hob was the flat part of the open hearth where water and spirits were warmed; and the small table, at which people sat when so engaged, was called a nob. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The tea-things were set upon the table, and the kettle was boiling on the hob. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• There was a kettle on the hob, as there had been night and day for fifteen years. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Phil announcing it, Mr. George knocks the ashes out of his pipe on the hob, stands his pipe itself in the chimney corner, and sits down to the meal. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Touching glasses together in drinking, preparatory to a confidential talk, has come to be nicknamed hob-nobbing because of the equipment incidental to that action years ago. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• We're tolerable, sir, I thank you, replied Grace, lifting the boiling mess carefully on to the hob: rather snappish, but not 'rageous. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• My tea is drawing, and my muffin is on the hob, Mr Wegg; will you partake? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• On the hob, a kettle steamed; on the hearth, a cat reposed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• We, being men, took a dark lantern that was standing on Brittle's hob, and groped our way downstairs in the pitch dark,--as it might be so. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Hob and nob, returned the sergeant. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• When the coffee was done, the Jew drew the saucepan to the hob. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• He finished it with great deliberation, knocked out the ashes on the hob, and put it by. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• What fun it was, especially going by the lions, fighting Apollyon, and passing through the valley where the hob-goblins were, said Jo. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• With these words he pulled up the smock-frock; and, winding it round his middle, drew a chair to the fire, and placed his feet upon the hob. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.

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