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Stob, stob, n. a small post for supporting paling: a wedge in coal-mining.

He come in from a neighbor's one day and the mule throwed him on a stob 'fore he got to the house.

Lots of times she tie me to a stob in the yard and cowhide me till she give out, then she go and rest and come back and beat me some more.

Nigh half way up the steep bank stood our little Margaret, loosely reeved to a sunken stob, her hands clasped before her.

Finally I knocked her over with a birch stob, and here we are.”