stob
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Etymology edit
Middle English; variant of stub. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
Noun edit
stob (plural stobs)
- (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.
- A small post for supporting paling.
- A wedge in coal-mining.
Verb edit
stob (third-person singular simple present stobs, present participle stobbing, simple past and past participle stobbed)
- (dialect, Appalachia, Northern England, Scotland) To stab.
- (dialect, Northern England, Scotland) To roof with stob-thatch.
- (dialect, Northern England, Scotland) To make mats with a stob tool.
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stob
Scottish Gaelic edit
Etymology edit
Perhaps of Germanic origin, connected with English stab.
Noun edit
stob m (genitive singular stuib, plural stoban)
Synonyms edit
- (thorn): droigheann
Verb edit
stob (past stob, future stobaidh, verbal noun stobadh, past participle stobte)