hot bed

noun, Metalworking.
1.
an area having rails or rolls on which rolled pieces are laid to cool.
Origin
1620-30
Examples from the web for hot bed
  • Harvard is a lot of things but a hot bed for racist, probably isn't anywhere near the top.
  • Ladle them over a hot bed of rice and you have a complete protein.
  • The super-hot bed material increased combustion efficiency by its direct contact with the fuel.
  • The super-hot bed material increases combustion efficiency by its direct contact with the fuel.
  • Herbicides and insecticides continued to be applied and sweet potato hot bed fumigations are underway.
  • The process flows are then switched, now feeding the inlet stream to the hot bed.
  • Sufficient was said cm the hot bed and window-box last month.
  • The flow is periodically reversed to continually feed the inlet stream to the hot bed.
  • The fluidized bed furnace or hot bed is where pyrolysis of the coatings takes place.
Slang definitions & phrases for hot bed

hot bed

n phr,n
  1. A bed used both day and night, by shifts of sleepers (1945+)
  2. A place that produces or is prominently rich in specified things: College these days is a hotbed of sobriety (1768+)