Usually means: Burners on a cooking stove.
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  1. hobs: Merriam-Webster
  2. hobs: Collins English Dictionary
  3. hobs: Vocabulary.com
  4. Hobs, hobs: Wordnik
  5. hobs: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. hobs: Wiktionary
  7. hobs: Dictionary.com
  8. HOBS: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. HOBS: Encyclopedia

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  1. HOBS: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Hob)

noun:  A kind of cutting tool, used to cut the teeth of a gear.
noun:  (historical) The flat projection or iron shelf at the side of a fire grate, where things are put to be kept warm.
noun:  (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) The top cooking surface on a cooker; a cooktop. It typically comprises several cooking elements (often four), also known as 'rings'.
noun:  A rounded peg used as a target in several games, especially in quoits.
noun:  A male ferret.
noun:  The hub of a wheel.
verb:  (transitive) To create (a gear) by cutting with a hob.
verb:  (intransitive) To engage in the process of cutting gears with a hob.
noun:  (obsolete) A fairy; a sprite; an elf; a bogey.
noun:  (obsolete) A countryman; a rustic or yokel.
noun:  (obsolete) A nickname for Robin or Robert
noun:  (archaic) A nickname for Robin Goodfellow, Puck; (later) the devil
noun:  A surname originating as a patronymic.
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