Noun

(en noun)

The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave.

A point where many routes meet and traffic is distributed, dispensed or diverted.

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(computing) A computer networking device connecting several ethernet ports. See switch .

(surveying) A stake with a nail in it, used to mark a temporary point.

A male weasel; a buck; a dog; a jack.

(obsolete) The hilt of a weapon.

(Halliwell)

(US) A rough protuberance or projecting obstruction.

a hub in the road

A goal or mark at which quoits, etc., are thrown.

A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc.

A screw hob.

A block for scotching a wheel.

Noun

(en noun)

A place, especially the one where a given event is to happen.

(legal) A neighborhood or near place; the place or county in which anything is alleged to have happened; also, the place where an action is laid.

* The twelve men who are to try the cause must be of the same venue where the demand is made. --.

(obsolete) A bout; a hit; a turn. See venew.

(sports) Sport venue: a stadium or similar building in which a sporting competition is held.

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