Stob vs Stow - What's the difference?
stob | stow |
(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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to put something away in a compact and tidy manner
to put something away to store it in a space-saving manner and over a long time
As nouns the difference between stob and stow
is that stob is (dialectal|appalachian|northern england|scotland) a stick, twig or peg, especially in roofing or matting while stow is (rare) a place.As verbs the difference between stob and stow
is that stob is (dialect|appalachian|northern england|scotland) regional variant of stab while stow is to put something away in a compact and tidy manner.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.