stob

plural stobs

1. AppalachiaNorthern EnglandScotlanddialectalA stick, twig or peg, especially in roofing or matting.

   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.

   1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 11

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

present singular third person stobs · participle present stobbing · participle past stobbed · past stobbed

1. AppalachiaNorthern EnglandScotlanddialectalTo stab.

   Synonyms: jab, run through, chef, chib, ching, chive, enthrill, foin

2. Northern EnglandScotlanddialectalTo roof with stob-thatch.
3. Northern EnglandScotlanddialectalTo make mats with a stob tool.