Sob vs Stob - What's the difference?
sob | stob |
(dialectal, Appalachian, Northern England, Scotland) A stick, twig or peg, especially in roofing or matting.
* 1979 , Cormac McCarthy, Suttree , Random House, p.11:
(dialect, Appalachian, Northern England, Scotland) Regional variant of stab.
(dialect, Northern England, Scotland) To roof with stob-thatch, to make mats with a stob tool.
Appalachian English
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As nouns the difference between sob and stob
is that sob is a cry with a short, sudden expulsion of breath while stob is (dialectal|appalachian|northern england|scotland) a stick, twig or peg, especially in roofing or matting.As verbs the difference between sob and stob
is that sob is to weep with convulsive gasps or sob can be to soak while stob is (dialect|appalachian|northern england|scotland) regional variant of stab.stob
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.