stob

[stob]

noun Chiefly South Midland U.S.

a post, stump, or stake.

Origin of stob

1275–1325; Middle English; variant of stub¹

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Examples from the Web for stob

Historical Examples of stob

If you want to stob here, you will do as you are dold to do.
Despair's Last Journey
David Christie Murray
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
They drove up a stob, nailed a piece to a tree stacked their guns.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves
Work Projects Administration
One who forms or mends thatched roofs with a stob, or stake, S. B.
An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
John Jamieson
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)
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British Dictionary definitions for stob

stob

noun

Scot, Northern English and US dialect a post or stump

Word Origin for stob

C14: variant of stub

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