stob

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English

Etymology

Middle English; variant of stub. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Noun

stob (plural stobs)

  1. (dialectal, Appalachia, Northern England, Scotland) A stick, twig or peg, especially in roofing or matting.
    • 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 11:
      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.
  2. A small post for supporting paling.
  3. A wedge in coal-mining.

Verb

stob (third-person singular simple present stobs, present participle stobbing, simple past and past participle stobbed)

  1. (dialect, Appalachia, Northern England, Scotland) To stab.
  2. (dialect, Northern England, Scotland) To roof with stob-thatch.
  3. (dialect, Northern England, Scotland) To make mats with a stob tool.

Anagrams

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Pronunciation

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Verb

stob

  1. first/third-person singular preterite of stieben

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

Perhaps of Germanic origin, connected with English stab.

Noun

stob m (genitive singular stuib, plural stoban)

  1. stake (pointed stick)
  2. stump
  3. prick, thorn

Synonyms

Verb

stob (past stob, future stobaidh, verbal noun stobadh, past participle stobte)

  1. prick, prod
  2. push, thrust
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