Definition of "stob"

stob

noun
plural stobs
1. (dialectal, Appalachia, Northern England, Scotland) A stick, twig or peg, especially in roofing or matting.
  Quotations
  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
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.