of a grate. From the Anglo-Saxon verb habban (to hold). The chimney-corner, where at one time a settle stood on each side, was also called “the hob.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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