stob

American  

[stob] / stɒb /

noun

Chiefly South Midland U.S.

1. a post, stump, or stake.

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stob British  

/ stɒb /

noun

1. dialect a post or stump

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Etymology

Origin of stob

1275–1325; Middle English; variant of stub ¹

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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)

And the Guffernment would stob you, if they got to know.

From The Valley of the Kings by Pickthall, Marmaduke William