English

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Etymology

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

Noun

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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

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

  1. (dialect, Appalachia, Northern England, Scotland) To stab.
    Synonyms: jab, run through; see also Thesaurus:stab
  2. (dialect, Northern England, Scotland) To roof with stob-thatch.
  3. (dialect, Northern England, Scotland) To make mats with a stob tool.

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German

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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stob

  1. first/third-person singular preterite of stieben

Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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Perhaps of Germanic origin, connected with English stab.

Noun

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stob m (genitive singular stuib, plural stoban)

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

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Verb

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

  1. prick, prod
  2. push, thrust