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stob

American  
[stob] / stɒb /

noun

Chiefly South Midland U.S.
  1. a post, stump, or stake.


stob British  
/ stɒb /

noun

  1. dialect a post or stump

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of stob

1275–1325; Middle English; variant of stub 1

Example Sentences

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Some one tried to pull him down into his seat, but he struck the hand away, crying loudly, "Stob it! stob it, I say!"

From Stage Confidences by Morris, Clara

Nigh half way up the steep bank stood our little Margaret, loosely reeved to a sunken stob, her hands clasped before her.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

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

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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