stobs

stob (st

n. Chiefly Southern U.S.

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

[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).

stob [stɒb]

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

[variant of stub]

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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"

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He added Pascal - who had been living in Stobs, near Hawick, Roxburghshire, when he fell ill - had been more prone to infection because of the leukaemia.

Anthrax man 'in wrong place at wrong time' by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)

Mr Norris, of Stobs, near Hawick, in the Scottish Borders, died after becoming infected with anthrax spores from African drums.

'FREAK' CHAIN OF EVENTS LED TO ANTHRAX DEATH by The Journal (Newcastle, England)

The last death of this kind in Britain was in 2006 when Christopher Norris, 50, a craftsman from Stobs, near Hawick in Scotland, died after inhaling anthrax.

Anthrax spores kill drum maker by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)

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