2 entries under this word

Stub

Stŭb, n.

noun

n. [A-S. stybb, steb, Dan. stub, Sw. stubbe, Icel. stubbr, stubbi, stobbi, D. stobbe, L. Ger. stubbe, stubben, allied to Lat. stipes.]

Sense 1. The stump of a tree; that part of the stem of a tree which remains fixed in the earth when the tree is cut down; — applied especially to the stump of a small tree, or shrub.

Low stubs gored his feet. Coleridge.

Sense 2. A log; a block. [Obs.] Milton.

Stŭb, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. STUBBED; p. pr. & vb. n. STUBBING.]

Sense 1. To grub up by the roots; to extirpate; as, to stub up edible roots. “What stubbing, . . . digging, and harrowing is to a piece of land.” Berkeley.

Sense 2. [L. Ger. stubben.] To strike, as the toes, against a stump, stone, or other fixed object. [U. S.]