Sc. and north. dial. Also 6 Sc. stoib. [f. STOB sb.1]

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  1.  trans. (See quot. 1855.)

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1550.  Abstr. Protocols Town Clerks Glasgow (1894), I. 18. Twa howssis on the eist syide … as thai are now stobbit. Ibid. (1605), (1896), II. 116. Ane peice of waist grund … as the samin is alreddie stobbit and martchit.

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1855.  Whitby Gloss., Stob, to stick stobs, or small posts or quasi-posts, into the ground for the purpose of defining the limits, or the shape of any thing, as a Railway, a house, an enclosure.

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  2.  To roof with stob-thatch.

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1535.  Stewart, Cron. Scot. (Rolls), III. 227. Trynchis [he] gart mak … And stoibbit thame with ryce quhen that wes done.

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1900.  C. Murray, Hamewith, 30. And the thatch ance sae neatly stobbit Has lang been scant and bare.

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