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stob  (stb)

n. Chiefly Southern U.S.

A short straight piece of wood, such as a stake.

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[Middle English, stump, variant of stubbe, stub; see stub.]

Regional Note: The Southern word stob means a short straight stick of wood: "Jim Rozier's skill with a piece of iron and a hardwood stob sets up a vibration in the earth that Sopchoppy worms find extremely disagreeable" (Charles Kuralt). Related to stub and stubby, stob is one of numerous Indo-European cognates, for example, Greek stupos, meaning "stump (of a tree or branch)." In Middle English stob seems to have been a variant spelling of stub, with one of its meanings being "the amputated stump of a human limb." However, the word has chiefly denoted a short piece of wood, such as "a small post or stake or stump of a shrub, [and is] commonly so used in many, if not all, parts of the [American] South" (Charles F. Smith).

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stob [stɒb]

n

Scot, northern English, and US dialect a post or stump

[variant of stub]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

stob - a short straight stick of wood stick - an implement consisting of a length of wood; "he collected dry sticks for a campfire"; "the kid had a candied apple on a stick"