noun Chiefly South Midland U.S.
a post, stump, or stake.
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| dialect (Scot), (Northern English), (US) a post or stump | |
| [C14: variant of | |
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Stob
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
Example sentences
It was a greasy-looking thatch growing below a wound at the base of a stob.
The pressure of grunting drives a stob slowly down until it is buried too deep to vibrate properly.
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