Definition of hub

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Hub (n.) A block for scotching a wheel.

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Cuttoo Plate :: Cuttoo plate () A hood over the end of a wagon wheel hub to keep dirt away from the axle.
Hub :: Hub (n.) A screw hob. See Hob, 3..
Patience :: Patience (n.) A kind of dock (Rumex Patientia), less common in America than in Europe; monk's rhubarb..
Pieplant :: Pieplant (n.) A plant (Rheum Rhaponticum) the leafstalks of which are acid, and are used in making pies; the garden rhubarb..
Poll :: Poll (n.) The European chub. See Pollard, 3 (a)..
Hub :: Hub (n.) A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc..
Roach :: Roach (n.) An American chub (Semotilus bullaris); the fallfish.
Whoobub :: Whoobub (n.) Hubbub.
Thimbleeye :: Thimbleeye (n.) The chub mackerel. See under Chub.
Emodin :: Emodin (n.) An orange-red crystalline substance, C15H10O5, obtained from the buckthorn, rhubarb, etc., and regarded as a derivative of anthraquinone; -- so called from a species of rhubarb (Rheum emodei)..
Spline :: Spline (n.) A rectangular piece fitting grooves like key seats in a hub and a shaft, so that while the one may slide endwise on the other, both must revolve together; a feather; also, sometimes, a groove to receive such a rectangular piece..
Hob :: Hob (n.) The hub of a wheel. See Hub.
Spider :: Spider (n.) A skeleton, or frame, having radiating arms or members, often connected by crosspieces; as, a casting forming the hub and spokes to which the rim of a fly wheel or large gear is bolted; the body of a piston head; a frame for strengthening a core or mold for a casting, etc..
Chavender :: Chavender (n.) The chub.
Rhubarby :: Rhubarby (a.) Like rhubarb.
Polygonaceous :: Polygonaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of apetalous plants (Polygonaceae), of which the knotweeds (species of Polygonum) are the type, and which includes also the docks (Rumex), the buckwheat, rhubarb, sea grape (Coccoloba), and several other genera..
Tautog :: Tautog (n.) An edible labroid fish (Haitula onitis, or Tautoga onitis) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. When adult it is nearly black, more or less irregularly barred, with greenish gray. Called also blackfish, oyster fish, salt-water chub, and moll..
Rhabarbarate :: Rhabarbarate (a.) Impregnated or tinctured with rhubarb.
Chub-faced :: Chub-faced (a.) Having a plump, short face..
Nave :: Nave (n.) The block in the center of a wheel, from which the spokes radiate, and through which the axle passes; -- called also hub or hob..
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