stob
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of stob
1275–1325; Middle English; variant of stub 1
Example Sentences
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The man, my boss, said, 'Mack, get the rope behind the boiler and tie it to the stob and 'dead man'.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 1 by Work Projects Administration
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)
Stob, stob, n. a small post for supporting paling: a wedge in coal-mining.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
And the Guffernment would stob you, if they got to know.
From The Valley of the Kings by Pickthall, Marmaduke William
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