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stob en · NOUN
Etymology
From Middle English; variant of stub.
Meanings
(Appalachia, Northern-England, Scotland, dialectal) A stick, twig or peg, especially in roofing or matting.
He climbed from the skiff and tied up at a stob and labored up the thick grassless bank toward the arches where the bridge went to earth. 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 11:
A small post for supporting paling.
A wedge in coal-mining.
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stob en · VERB
Etymology
From Middle English; variant of stub.
Meanings
(Appalachia, Northern-England, Scotland, dialectal) To stab.
(Northern-England, Scotland, dialectal) To roof with stob-thatch.
(Northern-England, Scotland, dialectal) To make mats with a stob tool.