stob

Stob, stob, n. a small post for supporting paling: a wedge in coal-mining.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements)|Various
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 Raphael
One who forms or mends thatched roofs with a stob, or stake, S. B.
An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language|John Jamieson

Halliwell (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

stob

/ (stɒb) /

noun

Scot, Northern English and US dialect a post or stump

Word Origin for stob

C14: variant of stub

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