stob

noun, verb — 6 senses

stob

noun

Etymology From Middle English; variant of stub.

1

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:

2

A small post for supporting paling.

3

A wedge in coal-mining.

stob

verb

Etymology From Middle English; variant of stub.

1

Appalachia, Northern England, Scotland, Dialectal To stab.

2

Northern England, Scotland, Dialectal To roof with stob-thatch.

3

Northern England, Scotland, Dialectal To make mats with a stob tool.

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