stob
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of stob
1275–1325; Middle English; variant of stub 1
Example Sentences
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Dey stob you now, but dey didn't do dat den.
From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 by Work Projects Administration
And the Guffernment would stob you, if they got to know.
From The Valley of the Kings by Pickthall, Marmaduke William
He come in from a neighbor's one day and the mule throwed him on a stob 'fore he got to the house.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4 by United States. Work Projects Administration
If you want to stob here, you will do as you are dold to do.
From Despair's Last Journey by Murray, David Christie
They drove up a stob, nailed a piece to a tree stacked their guns.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 5 by Work Projects Administration
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