ST-OBとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

stob (plural stobs)

1. (dialectal, Appalachia, Northern England, Scotland) A stick, twig or peg, especially in roofing or matting.
   • 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 11:

     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.

2. A small post for supporting paling.
3. A wedge in coal-mining.

動詞

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

1. (dialect, Appalachia, Northern England, Scotland) To stab.

   Synonyms: jab, run through; see also Thesaurus:stab

2. (dialect, Northern England, Scotland) To roof with stob-thatch.
3. (dialect, Northern England, Scotland) To make mats with a stob tool.

アナグラム

• 'bots, Bots., bost, bots