stob

Middle English; variant of stub. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

stob (plural stobs)

1. (dialectal, Appalachia, Northern England, Scotland) A stick, twig or peg, especially in roofing or matting.
   • 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 11:

     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.

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

stob (third-person singular simple present stobs, present participle stobbing, simple past and past participle stobbed)

1. (dialect, Appalachia, Northern England, Scotland) To stab.
2. (dialect, Northern England, Scotland) To roof with stob-thatch.
3. (dialect, Northern England, Scotland) To make mats with a stob tool.

• 'bots, Bots., bost, bots

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stob

1. first/third-person singular preterite of stieben

Perhaps of Germanic origin, connected with English stab.

stob m (genitive singular stuib, plural stoban)

1. stake (pointed stick)
2. stump
3. prick, thorn

• (thorn): droigheann

stob (past stob, future stobaidh, verbal noun stobadh, past participle stobte)

1. prick, prod
2. push, thrust