stob

stob的音标和读音：
DJ音标发音： [stɔb]
KK音标发音： [stɑb]

stob的词性：
n.Chiefly Southern U.S. （名词）【多用于美国南部】

1. A short, straight piece of wood, such as a stake.
柱子：短而直的一块木头，如柱子

stob的词源：

2. Middle English [stump]
中古英语 [树根]

3. variant of stubbe, stub * see stub
stubbe的变体, stub *参见 stub

stob的注释：

4. The Southern word stob means a short, straight stick of wood: “Jim Rozier's skill with a piece of iron and a hardwood stob sets up a vibration in the earth that Sopchoppy worms find extremely disagreeable” (Charles Kuralt). Related to stub and stubby, stob is one of numerous Indo-European cognates, for example, Greek stupos, meaning “stump (of a tree or branch).” In Middle English stob seems to have been a variant spelling of stub, with one of its meanings being “the amputated stump of a human limb.” However, the word has chiefly denoted a short piece of wood, such as “a small post or stake or stump of a shrub, [and is] commonly so used in many, if not all, parts of the [American] South” (Charles F. Smith).
南方语言stob 指一段短而直的树枝： 吉姆·罗泽尔的铁条或硬木树枝技术使大地呈现一片繁荣，苏普乔皮虫感到极为不快” （查尔斯·库拉尔特）。许多印欧语系同源词与stub 和 stubby，stob 有关， 例如，希腊语stupos 指 “（树或树枝的）树桩”。 在中古英语中，stob 看起来是 stub 的另一种拼法， 并有“人类肢体切断的残余”的意思。但是，这个词主要指一短块树木，如一小段桩子或柱子或树枝的残存部分，广泛用于［美国］南部大部分地区，如果不是全部地区的话”（查尔斯·F·史密斯）