The story
- Middle Irish · derived from[Term?]
- English todayscob
The Scottish National Dictionary derives the weaving sense from earlier Scottish and Northern English dialectal use of scob to refer to a split or splinter or piece of wood, which it derives from the Middle Irish [Term?] source of Irish scolb (“splinter”); compare Scots skelf.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.