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Hub   /həb/   Listen
noun
Hub  n.  
1.
The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave.
2.
The hilt of a weapon.
3.
A rough protuberance or projecting obstruction; as, a hub in the road. (U.S.) See Hubby.
4.
A goal or mark at which quoits, etc., are cast.
5.
(Diesinking) A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc.
6.
A screw hob. See Hob, 3.
7.
A block for scotching a wheel.
8.
The central location within which activities tend to concentrate, or from which activities radiate outward; a focus of activity.
9.
Hence: (Aeronautics) A large airport used as a central transfer station for an airline, permitting economic air transportation between remote locations by directing travellers through the hub, often changing planes at the hub, and thus keeping the seat occupancy rate on the airplanes high. The hub together with the feeder lines from remote locations constitute the so-called hub and spoke system of commercial air passenger transportation. A commercial airline may have more than one such hub.
10.
The city of Boston, Massachusetts referred to locally by the nickname The Hub.
Hub plank (Highway Bridges), a horizontal guard plank along a truss at the height of a wagon-wheel hub.
Up to the hub, as far as possible in embarrassment or difficulty, or in business, like a wheel sunk in mire; deeply involved. (Colloq.)





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"Hub" Quotes from Famous Books



... objectives on the Peninsula, the Turkish lines of communications, and even Constantinople itself. In this campaign, too, torpedoes were used for the first time by aircraft and three ships were destroyed in the Dardanelles by this means. The distance from the hub of affairs, a line of supply about 6,000 miles in length, sickness and the climatic and geographical conditions rendered maintenance very difficult. Sand and dust driven in clouds by high winds greatly shortened ...
— Aviation in Peace and War • Sir Frederick Hugh Sykes
... ammunition wagon cracked his long whip over the oxen and they tugged at the yoke. The wheels were now down to the hub, and the wagon ceased to move. The driver cracked his whip again and again, and the oxen threw their full weight into the effort. The wheels slowly rose from their sticky bed, but then something cracked with a report like a pistol ...
— The Texan Scouts - A Story of the Alamo and Goliad • Joseph A. Altsheler
... against which violently thumping the Platter, the Bones mount, changing Colour with the windy whisking of their Hands to and fro; which action in that sport they much use, smiting themselves on the Breasts and Thighs, crying out Hub Hub Hub; they may be heard playing at this game a quarter of a mile off. The Bones being all black or white make a double Game; if three of one colour, and two of another, then they afford but a single game; four of a colour and one differing is nothing. ...
— Indian Games • Andrew McFarland Davis
... unhappy spirit, and, unless all honour had ceased to find a place between man and dog, reparation was certainly his due. In one quarter a sense of pity had furthermore been generated—a fact, though unsuspected at the time, that was to prove the hub round which Murphy's whole future was destined to revolve. An appeal to the heart, if such once gets home, can never really fail—unless, as Murphy's countrymen might say, the person appealed ...
— 'Murphy' - A Message to Dog Lovers • Major Gambier-Parry
... shadow iv th' house, an' they was shootin' at him fr'm roofs an' behind barns. Whin he see it was all up, he come out with his eyes closed, firin' straight ahead; an' they filled him so full iv lead he broke th' hub iv th' pathrol wagon takin' him to ...
— Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen • Finley Peter Dunne


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