stob

English

Noun

stob (plural stobs)

1. (dialectal, Appalachia, Northern England, Scotland) A stick, twig or peg, especially in roofing or matting.
   • 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.11:

     He climbed from the skiff and tied up at a stob and labored up the thick grassless bank toward the arches where the bridge went to earth.

2. A small post for supporting paling.
3. A wedge in coal-mining.

Verb

stob (third-person singular simple present stobs, present participle stobbing, simple past and past participle stobbed)

1. (dialect, Appalachia, Northern England, Scotland) To stab.
2. (dialect, Northern England, Scotland) To roof with stob-thatch.
3. (dialect, Northern England, Scotland) To make mats with a stob tool.

Anagrams

• 'bots, Bots., bost, bots

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German

Verb

stob

1. (deprecated template usage) First-person singular preterite of stieben.
2. (deprecated template usage) Third-person singular preterite of stieben.

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

Perhaps of Germanic origin, connected with English stab.

Noun

stob m (genitive singular stuib, plural stoban)

1. stake (pointed stick)
2. stump
3. prick, thorn

Synonyms

• (thorn): droigheann

Verb

stob (past stob, future stobaidh, verbal noun stobadh, past participle stobte)

1. prick, prod
2. push, thrust