Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The heated stone on which oat-cake is baked.
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Examples
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What she may have been meditating on we cannot pretend to ascertain; but after some time, she looked sharply into the "backstone," or hob, with an air of anxiety and alarm.
Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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What she may have been meditating on, we cannot pretend to ascertain; but after some time, she looked sharply into the backstone, or hob, with an air of anxiety and alarm.
The Lianhan Shee 1921
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