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stubbed, ppl. a.|stʌbd|
[f. stub v.1 + -ed1.]
1. a. Of trees: Cut down to a stub; cut off near the ground; also, deprived of branches or pollarded.
1575Gascoigne Posies, Hearbes (1907) 343 Like a stubbed thorne. 1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. G 3, After him followed the knight of the Owle, whose armor was a stubd tree ouer⁓growne with iuie. 1627Drayton Nimphidia lvi, A paine he in his Head-peece feeles, Against a stubbed Tree he reeles. 1793W. Blake Amer. 83 They cannot bring the stubbèd oak to overgrow the hills. 1819Keats Otho iii. i. 35 What, man, do you mistake the hollow sky For a throng'd tavern, and these stubbed trees For old serge hangings? 1856Kingsley Misc. (1859) II. 16 The trunk looking like an old stubbed oak.
b. Of ground: Having the stubs removed; grubbed up.
1573–80Tusser Husb. (1878) 73 In stubbed plot, fill hole with clot.
2. a. Short and thick, stumpy. ? Obs. exc. dial.
a1529Skelton E. Rummyng 422 Her legges..were sturdy and stubbed. 1611Coryat Crudities 42 Their [sc. ostriches] heads are covered all with small stubbed feathers. 1630R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. 12 The Tartar is a stubbed squat fellow, hard bred, and such are their horses. 1658Evelyn Fr. Gard. (1675) 164 Three years you must forbear to cut, that the plant may be strong, and not stubbed. 1687Miege Gt. Fr. Dict. ii, Stubbed, short and well set, trapu, membru. A stubbed Fellow, un Trapu. 1696E. Lhwyd in Phil. Trans. XXVII. 464 With Bills more stubbed and bigger than that of a Bull-finch. 1769Gray Jrnl. 13 Oct. Poems (1775) 375 The rock..rises perpendicular, with stubbed yew-trees and shrubs staring from its side. 1868Rep. U.S. Commissioner Agric. (1869) 254 Trimming does thicken the surface of the hedge by causing a stubbed, stooling form of growth. 1883S. C. Hall Retrospect II. 206 A short, thick, stubbed, ungainly and ungraceful form.
†b. stubbed boy: a ‘hobbledehoy’. Obs.
16..Chalkhill Thealma & Clearchus (1683) 71 Memnon himself keeps home, attended on But by a stubbed Boy. 1722Hist. & Antiq. Glastonbury Author's Pref. n 4 note, Saunders must be a stubbed Boy, if not a Man, at the Dissolution of Abbeys.
3. Reduced to a stub; worn down to a stub; (of hair) cut close to the skin, stubbly.
1621Sanderson Serm., Ad Pop. iv. (1674) I. 213 Thy new broom, that now sweepeth clean all discontents from thee, will soon grow stubbed. 1631[Mabbe] Celestina vii. 84 She did pull out seven teeth out of a fellowes head that was hang'd with a paire of pincers, such as you pull out stubbed haires withall. 1762Churchill Ghost ii. 306 Hark! something scratches round the room! A Cat, a Rat, a stubb'd Birch-broom. 1802Trans. Soc. Arts XX. 172 Effectually done..by a stubbed birch broom.
4. a. Blunted at the point.
1610B. Jonson Masque of Oberon Wks. (1616) 977 To spight the coy Nymphes scornes, Hang vpon our stubbed hornes, Garlands, ribbands and fine poesies. 1675A. Browne Appendix Art Paint. 26 Instead of the Rolls of Paper they make use of Stubbed Pencils; and some of them are stuffed with Cotton, and some others with Bombast. 1728Swift Pastoral Dial. 3 While each with stubbed Knife remov'd the Roots That rais'd between the Stones their daily Shoots. 1854A. E. Baker Northampt. Gloss., Stubbed or Stubby, blunt-pointed, as the broad nib of a pen, thick, short. 1860O. W. Holmes Elsie Venner iii, The short, stubbed blade of his jack-knife.
†b. fig. Dull, not delicate or sensitive. Obs.
1744Berkeley Siris §105 The hardness of stubbed vulgar constitutions.
5. Abounding in stubs.
1855Browning Ch. Roland xxv, Then came a bit of stubbed ground, once a wood. 1898M. Hewlett Forest Lovers vi, He urged his horse over the stubbed heath.
6. Chiefly, of a toe: injured by being struck against something. Cf. stub v.1 9 a. orig. U.S.
1890Brighton (Colorado) Reg. 11 Jan. 4/1 Montana is the ‘stubbed-toe State’. 1958J. G. MacGregor North-West of 16 viii. 111, I don't suppose a city boy, or even a modern farm boy, knows what a stubbed toe is. Maybe that's just as well, because they were most painful. 1977Evening Gaz. (Middlesbrough) 11 Jan. 4/5 None of the hair-raising stunts he performs for his TV series Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em led to any injury greater than a stubbed finger. 1978B. Bainbridge Young Adolf xviii. 101 Testily he kicked at the..wood... Recoiling, he curled his stubbed toes within his boot.
7. stubbed-out: of a cigarette, extinguished by being pressed against a hard object.
1975O. Sela Bengali Inheritance xxv. 218 A single stubbed out Stuyvesant in the ashtray. 1979N.Y. Rev. Bks. 8 Feb. 13/4 No other writer since Noël Coward can have so constantly punctuated dialogue and action with a ritual pattern of lighting-up, inhalation, smoke-rings, and stubbed-out butts.
Hence ˈstubbedness, ‘a being short and thick’.
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