He pounds a wooden stake, called a stob, into the ground and levels his 10-pound flat iron over the top. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
Page 237 and his right foot level with the pointed end of the oaken "stob," or stake. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Now In England] Reference
He pounds a two-foot wooden "stob" or stake into the earth and rubs it with a 10-pound piece of flat iron. From Wordnik.com. Reference
He was straining hard, but the stob wouldn't come out. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
If you want to stob here, you will do as you are dold to do. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
How fast could a man run with a long stob stuck through him?. From Wordnik.com. [The Berrybender Narratives] Reference
Ai spoast tu beeing ded, yu noes – nao stob maeking mii laff!. From Wordnik.com. [i will avenge you!!!!!!!!! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
He would take his knife and stob my risings to see the matter pop way out. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 7] Reference
April 22, 2010 at 7:32 pm tell mi doc: whear iz tha nexzt stob fo blu box?. From Wordnik.com. [Is bigger on inside - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
Someone had been hurt and Po was trying to pull a stob of some kind out of his body. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
I sneak up right behind the animal like a true sportsman and then juug 'em with me stob. From Wordnik.com. [If You could have just one rifle...] Reference
Iffn kidlet is one years nawt young, U kint explain da ouchouchouch ob grabin da pan orfa da stob. From Wordnik.com. [Gee tanks, I will have dem - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
Some one tried to pull him down into his seat, but he struck the hand away, crying loudly, "stob it! stob it, I say!". From Wordnik.com. [Stage Confidences] Reference
I go to the consul now direc'ly; make him a-stob you!. From Wordnik.com. [The Valley of the Kings] Reference
WHITE: The shorter the stob gets the higher the pitch. From Wordnik.com. Reference
And the Guffernment would stob you, if they got to know. From Wordnik.com. [The Valley of the Kings] Reference
"Here, stob a minute!" whispered Nels, in agony of discovery. From Wordnik.com. [The Children's Book of Christmas Stories] Reference
Bei Gott! you bedder git oop und back your glo'es, und stob dod gryin '. From Wordnik.com. [In the Arena Stories of Political Life] Reference
Then he slowly, rhythmically, rubs the iron over the stob, back and forth. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
WHITE: And make them vibrate by rubbing the iron back and forth across the top of the stob. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The tone changes as the point of the stob reaches down to the dense sand or pan below the topsoil. From Wordnik.com. Reference
I used it a little like a cowboy uses a stob to which he fastens his lariat when he wants his pony to graze. From Wordnik.com. [The story of my life, or, More than a half century as I have lived it and seen it lived,] Reference
Some people call it scrub bait, scrubbing the stob ... grunt. .grunt worms. .maybe some would say charming or fiddlin 'whatever. From Wordnik.com. Reference
He was straining hard, but the stob wouldn’t come out. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove] Reference
Now I’ve got a hole in my jaw big enough to stick a stob in. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph Days] Reference
I guess I didn’t get that stob hammered in as well as I thought. From Wordnik.com. [The Convict and Other Stories] Reference
"Once I saw Brock Pennington stob Bill Tanner in the calf of the leg with a pitchfork. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Ridge Country] Reference
I forget to turn der switch; dot's vy I can't stob der Grasshobber ven she hobs avay. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest] Reference
Three - cut a stick, and stob it into the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Final Fudd Quiz!] Reference
"Yes" -- interrupted Suggs -- "prudence is the stob I fasten the grape-vine of my cunnoo to. From Wordnik.com. [Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with "Taking the Census," and Other Alabama Sketches. By a Country Editor. With a Portrait from Life, and Other Illustrations, by Darley] Reference
Dey stob you now, but dey didn't do dat den. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2] Reference
But the longer the stob the lower the pitch. From Wordnik.com. Reference
"Vell, somepody better toldt dem to stob id. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Merriwell Down South] Reference
Siward, Stobart, dialect stob, a bull, Stodart, Mid. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Names] Reference
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