stob
IPA: stˈɑb
noun
- (dialectal, Appalachia, Northern England, Scotland) A stick, twig or peg, especially in roofing or matting.
- A small post for supporting paling.
- A wedge in coal-mining.
verb
- (dialect, Appalachia, Northern England, Scotland) To stab.
- (dialect, Northern England, Scotland) To roof with stob-thatch.
- (dialect, Northern England, Scotland) To make mats with a stob tool.
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Examples of "stob" in Sentences
- Ai spoast tu beeing ded, yu noes – nao stob maeking mii laff!
- Stob Dearg is the highest peak on the ridge and is closest to the A82 road.
- April 22, 2010 at 7:32 pm tell mi doc: whear iz tha nexzt stob fo blu box?.. .
- Page 237 and his right foot level with the pointed end of the oaken "stob," or stake.
- I sneak up right behind the animal like a true sportsman and then juug 'em with me stob.
- He pounds a wooden stake, called a stob, into the ground and levels his 10-pound flat iron over the top.
- He pounds a two-foot wooden "stob" or stake into the earth and rubs it with a 10-pound piece of flat iron.
- The vibrations are created by first pounding a wooden stake (called a "stob") into the ground, and then rubbing the top of the stake with a flat piece of metal (a "rooping iron").
- He was then hoisted up by his hands, by means of the pulley and rope, in such wise that his body swung by its own weight, his hands being high over his head and his right foot level with the pointed end of the oaken "stob" or stake.
- The log cabin, set in a gall in the middle of an old field all grown up in sassafras, was not a very inviting-looking place; a few hens loitering about the new hen-house, a brood of half-grown chickens picking in the grass and watching the door, and a runty pig tied to a "stob," were the only signs of thrift; yet the face of the woman cleared up as she gazed about her and afar off, where the gleam of green made a pleasant spot, where the corn grew in the river bottom; for it was her home, and the best of all was she thought it belonged to them.
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