Sc. and north. dial. Also 6 Sc. stoib. [f. STOB sb.1]
1. trans. (See quot. 1855.)
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.
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.
2. To roof with stob-thatch.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot. (Rolls), III. 227. Trynchis [he] gart mak And stoibbit thame with ryce quhen that wes done.
1900. C. Murray, Hamewith, 30. And the thatch ance sae neatly stobbit Has lang been scant and bare.