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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



... of Appeal, set up by the wisdom of God, the Church would disintegrate and fall into pieces to-morrow. To remove from the Church of Christ the infallibility of the Pope would be like removing the hub from the wheel, the key-stone from the arch, the trunk from the tree, the foundation from the house. For, in each case the result must mean confusion. If such a result could ever have been doubted in the past, it can surely be doubted ...
— The Purpose of the Papacy • John S. Vaughan
... wheel about twenty inches in diameter. Wind bright colored bunting or ribbon around the wheel and spokes and attach various flowers and blossoms singly and in clusters to the cloth, letting some hang down as vines and festoons. Place the hub over top of May Pole. Insert in the top of hub three pennants of red, white and blue and stalks of flowers. Natural flowers should be used if possible but paper or artificial ...
— Games For All Occasions • Mary E. Blain
... and eloquent beyond measure. Rawdon was, of course, the hub upon which I went round—Rawdon and the Rawdonesque employer and the injustice of "wages slavery" and all the immediate conditions of that industrial blind alley up which it seemed our lives were thrust. ...
— In the Days of the Comet • H. G. Wells
... sidewalks came up a few years ago,' said our host as we trotted over miles of it. 'We found it the only way to fight the prairie mud. Look!' Where the daring road ended, there lay unsubdued, level with the pale asphalt, the tenacious prairie, over which civilisation fought her hub-deep way to the West. And with asphalt and concrete they fight the prairie back every building season. Next came the show-houses, built by rich men with an eye to the honour and glory of their city, which is the first obligation of ...
— Letters of Travel (1892-1913) • Rudyard Kipling
... occasionally to utter a long and musical bay. This wakes up the curs about the negro-yard, and their barking stirs up the geese, the combined chorus rousing all the cocks in the various poultry-houses, so that we ride off amid a hub-bub of howling, cackling, neighing and crowing which would awaken the Seven Sleepers. We are first at the meet, and the old woods ring with the mellow, winding notes of our horns—no twanging brass reeds in the mouth-pieces, but honest ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - February, 1876, Vol. XVII, No. 98. • Various


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