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stubbed

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stub⋅bed

  [stuhb-id, stuhbd]
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–adjective
1. reduced to or resembling a stub; short and thick; stumpy.
2. abounding in or rough with stubs.
Origin:
1520–30; stub 1 + -ed 3

Related forms:
stub⋅bed⋅ness, noun

stub

1  [stuhb] ,noun, verb, stubbed, stub⋅bing.
–noun
1. a short projecting part.
2. a short remaining piece, as of a pencil, candle, or cigar.
3. (in a checkbook, receipt book, etc.) the inner end of each leaf, for keeping a record of the content of the part filled out and torn away.
4. the returned portion of a ticket.
5. the end of a fallen tree, shrub, or plant left fixed in the ground; stump.
6. something having a short, blunt shape, esp. a short-pointed, blunt pen.
7. stub nail.
8. something having the look of incomplete or stunted growth, as a horn of an animal.
9. Bridge. a part-score.
–verb (used with object)
10. to strike accidentally against a projecting object: I stubbed my toe against the step.
11. to extinguish the burning end of (a cigarette or cigar) by crushing it against a solid object (often fol. by out): He stubbed out the cigarette in the ashtray.
12. to clear of stubs, as land.
13. to dig up by the roots; grub up (roots).
Origin:
bef. 1000; (n.) ME stubb(e), OE stubb tree stump; c. MLG, MD stubbe, ON stubbi; akin to ON stūfr stump; (v.) late ME stubben to dig up by the roots, clear stumps from (land), deriv. of the n.

Related forms:
stubber, noun
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stub   (stŭb)   
n.  

  1. The usually short end remaining after something bigger has been used up: a pencil stub; a cigarette stub. See Regional Note at stob.

  2. Something cut short or arrested in development: a stub of a tail.

    1. The part of a check or receipt retained as a record.

    2. The part of a ticket returned as a voucher of payment.

tr.v.   stubbed, stub·bing, stubs

    1. To pull up (weeds) by the roots.

    2. To clear (a field) of weeds.

  2. To strike (one's toe or foot) against something accidentally.

  3. To snuff out (a cigarette butt) by crushing.


[Middle English stubbe, tree stump, from Old English stybb.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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