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stob

stob noun: a stick, twig or peg, especially in roofing or matting.

Noun

stob (plural stobs)

  1. (Appalachia, Northern England, Scotland, dialectal) A 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.

Verb

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

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

stob meaning in Urdu

stob in Urdu

آر, کھمبا

Synonyms of stob

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Forms of stob

Noun
pluralstobs
Verb
third-person singular presentstobs
present participlestobbing
past participlestobbed
paststobbed

Origin of stob

From Middle English; variant of stub.

Questions about stob

What does stob mean?
Stob means a stick, twig or peg, especially in roofing or matting.
What is stob in Urdu?
Stob in Urdu is آر, کھمبا. See Stob meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is stob?
Stob can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of stob?
The plural of stob is stobs.

Words near stob in the dictionary

  1. stoating
  2. stoatious
  3. stoatlike
  4. stoats
  5. stoaty
  6. stob
  7. STOBAR
  8. Stobart
  9. Stobaugh
  10. Stobaughs
  11. Stobbe

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: stob (page history and authors); stob (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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