stob
[stob]
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noun Chiefly South Midland U.S.
a post, stump, or stake.
Origin of stob
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If you want to stob here, you will do as you are dold to do.
Despair's Last JourneyDavid 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.
SonnyRick 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 SlavesWork Projects Administration
One who forms or mends thatched roofs with a stob, or stake, S. B.
An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish LanguageJohn Jamieson
Stob, stob, n. a small post for supporting paling: a wedge in coal-mining.
stob
noun
Word Origin for stob
C14: variant of stub
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