stob
a post, stump, or stake.
Origin of stob
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How to use stob in a sentence
stob, stob, n. a small post for supporting paling: a wedge in coal-mining.
stob a leedle, or py yiminey I soak yer in der chaw mit dot moosic!
Jack Wright and His Electric Stage; | "Noname"True, Ma never hesitated about taking a willow switch to him when he was a young 'un, or a stob of kindling when he got older.
Sonny | Rick RaphaelOne who forms or mends thatched roofs with a stob, or stake, S. B.
An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language | John JamiesonHalliwell (Dictionary) says it is a sort of “stob-ball Play.”
The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol II of II) | Alice Bertha Gomme
British Dictionary definitions for stob
/ (stɒb) /
Scot, Northern English and US dialect a post or stump
Origin of stob
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