hob
9.9
A shelf beside a fireplace for keeping pots and food warm
- noun
- /hɑb/
- Archaic
:
repisa de la chimenea
- After cooking the stew for hours, she placed the pot on the hob to keep it warm while preparing the rest of the meal.
Examples
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To keep the soup warm, she put the ladle back in the pot sitting on the hob next to the fire.
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He set the frying pan on the hob to heat it before adding oil for cooking.
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Humming A-B-C-A ascending, he placed it on the hob, cut himself a thick slice of bread, and spread it with dripping, then sat down before the glow on a three-legged stool.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
chimneypiece
vshob
8.2
A shelf above a fireplace that holds pictures or small objects
is at the fireplace side used to keep food or utensils warm
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hob originally meant a small shelf by the fireplace — a simple ledge where people put pots to 'keep warm'. So a hob is a place to rest hot pans and keep food warm.
