dial. [Prob. f. STOB sb.1 Cf. STAB v.] trans. To stab. Also fig.
1529. Rastell, Pastyme (1811), 132. Swanus … stobyd hym [Alphege] to deth at Greenwych.
1607. Reg. Privy Council Scot., XIV. 482. [They] with thair drawin suordis … stobbit the beddis within the said hous for my bodilie harme.
1632. Lithgow, Trav., III. 91. My designe is, to stob him with a knife this night.
1643. Baker, Chron., Edw. VI., 74. A Commissioner … was suddenly by a Priest stobbed into the body with a knife.
1678. Sir J. Lauder (Fountainhall), Hist. Notices (Bannatyne Club, 1848), I. 186. They say Major Johnston undertook to stob him, if he had attempted ane escape.
1683. Tryon, Way to Health, 456. No Swearing, nor stobbing Heaven with dreadful Execrations.
1700. in Spalding Club Miscell. (1846), III. 186. McPhersone came in to his house, and spilt his ale, and stobbed the bed, seeking the deponent.
