stob

[ stob ]

noun

, Chiefly South Midland U.S.

1. a post, stump, or stake.

stob

/ stɒb /

noun

1. dialect.
   a post or stump

Word History and Origins

Origin of stob¹

1275–1325; Middle English; variant of stub ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of stob¹

C14: variant of stub

Example Sentences

Stob, stob, n. a small post for supporting paling: a wedge in coal-mining.

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He come in from a neighbor's one day and the mule throwed him on a stob 'fore he got to the house.

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Lots of times she tie me to a stob in the yard and cowhide me till she give out, then she go and rest and come back and beat me some more.

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

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Finally I knocked her over with a birch stob, and here we are.”

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