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Stoa vs Stob - What's the difference?

stoa | stob |

As nouns the difference between stoa and stob

is that stoa is in Ancient Greece, a walkway with a roof supported by colonnades, often with a wall on one side; a portico while stob is a stick, twig or peg, especially in roofing or matting.

As a verb stob is

regional variant of stab.

stoa

English

Noun

(wikipedia stoa)
  • (architecture) In Ancient Greece, a walkway with a roof supported by colonnades, often with a wall on one side; a portico.

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    stob

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dialectal, Appalachian, Northern England, Scotland) A stick, twig or peg, especially in roofing or matting.
  • * 1979 , Cormac McCarthy, Suttree , Random House, p.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.

    Verb

  • (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.
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