stubn.

Brit.

/stʌb/, U.S.

/stəb/

Forms: Old English stubb, styb(b, ( steb), Middle English–1600s stubbe, Middle English–1800s stubb, 1500s stoubbe, Middle English– stub.

Etymology: Old English stub(b (masculine) = (Middle) Low German, Middle Dutch stubbe (early modern Dutch, West Frisian stobbe ), Old Norse stubb-r , stubbe , rarely stobbe (Middle Swedish stubbe , stobbe , Swedish, Norwegian stubbe , stubb , Danish stub ) < Germanic types *stubbo-z , stubbon- ; Old English had also stybb masculine < *stuƀjo-z or *stubbjo-z , which has coalesced with the other form. Old English had probably a form *stob(b with o- umlaut (compare the Old Norse doublets above), whence stob n.¹; in the 14–16th cent., however, stob(b may merely be a variant spelling for stub. To the same root (*stūƀ- < pre-Germanic *stūp- ) belong Old Norse stúf-r stump (Norwegian stuv ), (see stow v.²), Middle Low German stûve stump, fag-end, stûf blunt; outside Germanic compare Greek στύπος stump, stock, Latvian stups fag-end.

a. A stump of a tree or, more rarely, of a shrub or smaller plant; the portion left fixed in the ground when a tree has been felled; also, †a trunk deprived of branches.

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the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [noun] > stump

stock862

moreeOE

stub967

zuche1358

stumpc1440

scrag1567

stool1577

brock1772

stow1774

hagsnar1796

stab1807

spronk1838

tree stool1898

967 Charter of Eadgar in Kemble Cod. Dipl. No. 813. III. 10 Andlang dices on ðone stubb.

c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 108/5 Stipes, stipitis, treowwes steb.

c1000 Ælfric Gram. (Z.) ix. 68 Hic stirps ðes stybb.

1301 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer (P.R.O.: E101/147/10) in G. J. Turner Sel. Pleas Forest (1901) 147/2 [Six] stubbs [sold for] 3s. 4d.

1348–9 in Blount's Law Dict. (1691) at Zuche Rex concessit Thomæ de Colvile omnes Zoucheos aridos, vocat. Stubbes arborum succisorum, in Foresta de Galtres.

c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 2293 Gawayn..stode stylle as þe ston oþer a stubbe auþer.

146. in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 25 And it please to deliver unto Robert of Tymble a Stub, the which Mr. Controller granted unto his ward for him and his wife.

1519 W. Horman Vulgaria xxx. f. 247^v We went by strayte pathes full of stoubbys, busshys, and bryers.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. ix. sig. I^v Old stockes and stubs of trees, Whereon nor fruite nor leafe was euer seene.

?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) xii. 611 Yet, might my feete, on no stub fasten hold To ease my hands: the roots were crept so low Beneath the earth.

1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 264 Then went shee a little further, and on a stub, which was betweene two trees, she sate downe.

1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd i. 339 We here Live on tough roots and stubs .

1760 R. Brown Compl. Farmer: Pt. 2 101 When it [rape] hath been cut, the stubs of it will sprout again.

1772 Philos. Trans. 1771 (Royal Soc.) 61 138 In the forest of Kent,..there still remains several large old chesnut stubbs.

1795 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Essex 152 The remaining stub of the thistle.

1799 S. T. Coleridge Introd. Tale Dark Ladie 64 How boughs rebounding scourg'd his limbs, And low stubs gor'd his feet.

1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers I. iii. 42 Unsightly remnants of trees that had been partly destroyed by fire were seen rearing their..columns..above the pure white of the snow. These,..in the language of the country are termed stubbs.

1864 G. P. Marsh Man & Nature 109 In the United States..dead trees..are often allowed to stand until they fall of themselves. Such stubs, as they are popularly called, are..often deeply cut by the woodpeckers.

1895 I. Zangwill Master ii. xi. 268 The woodpeckers tapped on the hollow stubs.

1907 ‘J. Halsham’ Lonewood Corner 114 Before the stubs of the under~wood have sprouted again.

†b. to buy (brushwood, etc.) on or at the stub: to buy on the ground, growing. Hence (?), to pay at the stub: to pay ready money. Obsolete.

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society > trade and finance > payment > pay [verb (intransitive)] > pay ready money

to pitch and payc1450

to pay at the stub1532

the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [adverb] > while standing or before felling

(to sell wood) upon the stock1340

to buy (brushwood, etc.) on or at the stub1532

1532 in Lett. & Papers Henry VIII (1965) V. 446 For thorns bought on the stubb... For edders and stakes bought likewise on the stub.

1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 15 In time go and bargaine..for fewell... To buy at the stub, is the best for the buier.

1615 S. Rowlands Melancholie Knight 13 A very Cobler shall as welcome be That payes his readie money at the stub, As I that come a trust to worships dub.

1795 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Essex 62 The under woods are cut down at eleven years growth, and..they sell at the stub for 3 l. 10 s. per acre.

†c. The part of a tree-trunk close to the ground.

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the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [noun] > stem, trunk, or bole > base of

stub1558

butt end1601

tree-foot1855

stump1902

1558–9 Act 1 Eliz. c. 15 §1 No person..shall convert..to Coale or other Fuell for the making of Yron, any Tymber Tree..of the Breadthe of One Foot Square at the Stubbe.

1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) ii. xvii. 200/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I For what a thing it is to haue a ship growing on the stub, and sailing on the sea within the space of fiue and fiftie daies?

1637 Heywood in Naval Chron. 3 370 Timber,..ten feet at the stub or bottom.

†d. A stock for grafting upon. In quot. 1587 figurative.

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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > grafting > rootstock

graff-stockc1503

stub1587

graftlinga1618

gribblea1641

free stock1658

rootstock1867

understock1937

1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) ii. i. 139/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I You shall see no fewer deeds of charitie doone, nor better grounded vpon the right stub of pietie than before.

†2. figurative. A blockhead; = stock n.¹ 1c. Obsolete.

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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > stupid person, dolt, blockhead > [noun]

asseOE

sotc1000

beastc1225

long-ear?a1300

stock1303

buzzard1377

mis-feelinga1382

dasarta1400

stonea1400

dasiberd14..

dottlec1400

doddypoll1401

dastardc1440

dotterel1440

dullardc1440

wantwit1449

jobardc1475

nollc1475

assheada1500

mulea1500

dull-pate15..

peak1509

dulbert?a1513

doddy-patec1525

noddypolla1529

hammer-head1532

dull-head?1534

capon1542

dolt1543

blockhead1549

cod's head1549

mome1550

grout-head1551

gander1553

skit-brains?1553

blocka1556

calfa1556

tomfool1565

dunce1567

druggard1569

cobble1570

dummel1570

Essex calf1573

jolthead1573

hardhead1576

beetle-head1577

dor-head1577

groutnoll1578

grosshead1580

thickskin1582

noddyship?1589

jobbernowl1592

beetle-brain1593

Dorbel1593

oatmeal-groat1594

loggerhead1595

block-pate1598

cittern-head1598

noddypoop1598

dorbellist1599

numps1599

dor1601

stump1602

ram-head1605

look-like-a-goose1606

ruff1606

clod1607

turf1607

asinego1609

clot-poll1609

doddiea1611

druggle1611

duncecomb1612

ox-head1613

clod-polla1616

dulman1615

jolterhead1620

bullhead1624

dunderwhelpa1625

dunderhead1630

macaroona1631

clod-patea1635

clota1637

dildo1638

clot-pate1640

stupid1640

clod-head1644

stub1644

simpletonian1652

bottle-head1654

Bœotiana1657

vappe1657

lackwit1668

cudden1673

plant-animal1673

dolt-head1679

cabbage head1682

put1688

a piece of wood1691

ouphe1694

dunderpate1697

numbskull1697

leather-head1699

nocky1699

Tom Cony1699

mopus1700

bluff-head1703

clod skull1707

dunny1709

dowf1722

stupe1722

gamphrel1729

gobbin?1746

duncehead1749

half-wit1755

thick-skull1755

jackass1756

woollen-head1756

numbhead1757

beef-head1775

granny1776

stupid-head1792

stunpolla1794

timber-head1794

wether heada1796

dummy1796

noghead1800

staumrel1802

muttonhead1803

num1807

dummkopf1809

tumphya1813

cod's head and shoulders1820

stoopid1823

thick-head1824

gype1825

stob1825

stookiea1828

woodenhead1831

ning-nong1832

log-head1834

fat-head1835

dunderheadism1836

turnip1837

mudhead1838

donkey1840

stupex1843

cabbage1844

morepork1845

lubber-head1847

slowpoke1847

stupiditarian1850

pudding-head1851

cod's head and shoulders1852

putty head1853

moke1855

mullet-head1855

pothead1855

mug1857

thick1857

boodle1862

meathead1863

missing link1863

half-baked1866

lunk1867

turnip-head1869

rummy1872

pumpkin-head1876

tattie1879

chump1883

dully1883

cretin1884

lunkhead1884

mopstick1886

dumbhead1887

peanut head1891

pie-face1891

doughbakea1895

butt-head1896

pinhead1896

cheesehead1900

nyamps1900

box head1902

bonehead1903

chickenhead1903

thickwit1904

cluck1906

boob1907

John1908

mooch1910

nitwit1910

dikkop1913

goop1914

goofus1916

rumdum1916

bone dome1917

moron1917

oik1917

jabroni1919

dumb-bell1920

knob1920

goon1921

dimwit1922

ivory dome1923

stone jug1923

dingleberry1924

gimp1924

bird brain1926

jughead1926

cloth-head1927

dumb1928

gazook1928

mouldwarp1928

ding-dong1929

stupido1929

mook1930

sparrow-brain1930

knobhead1931

dip1932

drip1932

epsilon1932

bohunkus1933

Nimrod1933

dumbass1934

zombie1936

pea-brain1938

knot-head1940

schlump1941

jarhead1942

Joe Soap1943

knuckle-head1944

nong1944

lame-brain1945

gobshite1946

rock-head1947

potato head1948

jerko1949

turkey1951

momo1953

poop-head1955

a right one1958

bam1959

nong-nong1959

dickhead1960

dumbo1960

Herbert1960

lamer1961

bampot1962

dipshit1963

bamstick1965

doofus1965

dick1966

pillock1967

zipperhead1967

dipstick1968

thickie1968

poephol1969

yo-yo1970

doof1971

cockhead1972

nully1973

thicko1976

wazzock1976

motorhead1979

mouth-breather1979

no-brainer1979

jerkwad1980

woodentop1981

dickwad1983

dough ball1983

dickweed1984

bawheid1985

numpty1985

jerkweed1988

dick-sucker1989

knob-end1989

Muppet1989

dingus1997

dicksack1999

eight ball-

1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 3 Ye shall have more adoe to drive our dullest and laziest youth, our stocks and stubbs from the infinite desire of such a happy nurture.

3. A short piece of a broken branch remaining on the stem.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [noun] > bough or branch > spur or stump of branch or bud

stubc1405

snag1577

brunt1623

skeg1625

stud1657

argot1693

spur1704

stump1707

wood-bud1763

nog1802

branch-bud1882

knee1889

knee-process1889

dard1925

c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1120 First on the wal was peynted a forest..With knotty, knarry, bareyne trees olde Of stubbes sharpe, and hidouse to biholde.

c1440 Ipomydon 1270 My palfrey..stumblyd..I toke this harme, A stubbe smote me þrow þe arme.

1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 159 A Parcel of Stubs [Fr. chicots], springing out of one Side and the other.

1796 C. Marshall Introd. Knowl. & Pract. Gardening xii. 210 Whether it is best to cut all spare shoots clean out, or to cut..down to little stubs, or false spurs, is hardly yet determined.

1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 147 Some cut superfluous fruit-shoots clean away; others leave a sprinkling of short stubs, cut very short if foreright.

1884 Cent. Mag. Dec. 222/1 His drum was the stub of a dry limb about the size of one's wrist.

a. = stubble n. Also plural. Now dialect. [So Swedish stubbe, Danish stub.]

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > stubble

arrishOE

stub1250

stubble1297

pease stubble?1523

pease-etch1573

gratten1577

stumps1585

brush1686

etch1727

pea stubble1743

pease-eddish1789

stubble1792

shacklea1800

1250 Owl & Night. 506 Ȝet þu singst worse þon þe hei~sugge, [Þ]at fliȝþ bi grunde among þe stubbe.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Stubbe of corne, stipula, stupa.

1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 246 If they are to sow wheat upon tillage, they choose wheat sown before upon bean stubs.

1811 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. (new ed.) 266 Stubs. The stubble of all corn is usually called stubs, as wheat-stubs, barley-stubs, &c.

1820 J. Clare Poems Rural Life (ed. 3) 95 But ill it suits thee in the stubs to glean.

†b. plural. The lower ends of cut stems of plants.

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > crop as it falls cut > cut end of

stub-side1733

stubs1764

1764 Museum Rusticum 2 81 It [sc. reaped coleseed] must not be turned, but raised up gently and laid lightly on the stubs.

†c. in the stub: said of growing flax. Obsolete.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > flax, hemp, or jute > [adverb] > in natural state

in the stub1730

1730 J. Swift Answer Craftsman in Wks. (1905) VII. 222 All the said commodities shall be sent in their natural state; the hides raw, the wool uncombed, the flax in the stub.

d. plural. Hair cut close to the skin. Now dialect.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > cut or cropped

roundinga1582

stumps1584

stubs1607

trim1608

tonsure1650

committee cut1691

rasure1737

crop1795

county crop1839

flat-top1859

prison cropc1863

clip1889

Dartmoor crop1930

razor cut1940

prison haircut1948

scissor cut1948

cut1951

pudding basin1951

short back and sides1965

1607 R. Turner Nosce Te sig. D1 A chinne as free from beard as any dogge, Saue stubbes more hard then brisles of a hogge.

a. A splinter or thorn in the flesh. Now dialect.

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the mind > emotion > anger > irritation > [noun] > action of irritating > cause of irritation > one who or that which irritates

fly?c1225

terrer1382

prickc1384

taryerc1440

stub1531

provokera1542

a mote in the eye1546

annoying1566

nettler1611

gadfly1622

flea-biter1629

exasperator1632

badgerer?1791

irritator1855

needler1874

nagger1881

holy terror1883

knob1920

jerkface1942

needle artist1982

d-bag1984

knob-end1989

hater1996

1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour ii. xiii. sig. X Out of whose fote a yonge man had ones taken a stubbe.

1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. vii. 160 To draw a thorne, stub, iron, splinter, naile..out of the flesh of the horse.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Stub, in the manege, is used for a splinter of fresh-cut under~ wood, that goes into a horse's foot as he runs.

1894 R. D. Blackmore Perlycross II. xxi. 67 Upon a truss of furze, with a flour-sack to shield him from the stubs and prickles.

†b. A stab or twinge of pain. Now dialect.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [noun] > sudden pain

stitchc1000

showera1300

shutea1300

gridea1400

gripa1400

shota1400

stounda1400

lancing1470

pang1482

twitch?1510

shooting1528

storm1540

stitching1561

stub1587

twinge1608

gird1614

twang1721

tang1724

shoot1756

darting1758

writhe1789

catch1830

lightning pain1860

twitcher1877

rash1900

1587 M. Grove Pelops & Hippodamia (1878) 86 Ixion nayled on the whirling wheele, Which hellish stubs & irksom pains doth feele.

a. A short thick nail (= stob n.¹ 4); a worn horseshoe nail, esp. in plural old horseshoe nails and other similar scraps as the material for making stub-iron. Cf. stub-nail n. at Compounds 2.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > nail > short and thick

stub1394

stob1496

stob-pin1571

stub-nail1639

stump nail1704

stob-nail1728

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > iron > [noun] > type of iron > scrap iron

old iron1383

stub1394

stub-nail1639

scrap iron1823

nut-iron1825

scrap1846

1394–5 in J. C. Atkinson Cartularium Abbathiæ de Whiteby (1881) II. 615 It. pro viii^xx cartnayle, x s. It. pro i^m stubs, ii s.

1595 R. Hasleton Strange & Wonderfull Things sig. Ciiij And immediatly searching about, I found an olde Iron stub, with the which I brake an hole thorow the chamber wall.

1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. xiii. 86 Fill it with Pibble-stones, Nails, Stubs of old Iron.

1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 276 He ordered, that all the Guns..should be loaded with Musquet Balls, old Nails, Stubbs [etc.].

1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 225 That kind which is of the most approved tenacity, is made of old horse-shoe nails or stubs.

1845 Penny Cycl. Suppl. I. 673 Horse-nails..which when worn out are collected with avidity as furnishing one of the best descriptions of scrap-iron, under the name of horse-nail stubs.

1846 W. Greener Sci. Gunnery (new ed.) 107 An equal substance of the best steel ever invented or made, is less in tenacity than a mixture similar to stubs and steel.

1863 E. C. Gaskell Sylvia's Lovers II. ii. 28 Hammers, beating out old iron, such as horse-shoes, nails or stubs, into the great harpoons.

b. Short for stub-barrel n. at Compounds 2.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > barrel > types of

pistol barrel1663

rifle barrel1766

stub-barrel1833

twist barrel1833

stub1853

full choke1876

1853 A. Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) I. 724 The barrels of musquets, birding-guns, etc. or what are called plain, to distinguish them from those denominated stubs or twisted barrels.

a. Something that looks stunted or cut short, e.g. a rudimentary tail or horn.

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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > longitudinal extent > shortness > [noun] > that which is short

long-little1653

stub1693

1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Compl. Gard'ner ii. v. xiv. 111 The Scutcheon cannot thrive, unless it be absolutely glued to the part to which it is apply'd; and consequently that part must be as smooth as the Scutcheon, which cannot be when a Scutcheon is apply'd upon an Eye, or Bud, which is an Elevated part, that forms a kind of Stub.

1694 Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. 33 They are shaped like English Hares..and instead of a Tail have a little stub about an inch long, without Hair on it.

a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 377 There will remain a little stub at the end of the twig, which dries up.

1887 W. T. Hornaday in Smithsonian Rep. ii. 397 The horn [of the buffalo] at three months is about 1 inch in length, and is a mere little black stub.

b. A short thick piece of wood.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > short piece of wood

stickOE

stub1833

1833 W. H. Maxwell Field Bk. 522 Stub,..a log.

1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. 605 At the distance of a foot behind the coulter-box a strong stub of wood is mortised into the beam at C.

1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. 605 The two stilts or handles are simply bolted to the stub.

1898 T. O'C. Sloane Standard Electr. Dict. (ed. 2) 622 Stub, Anchor guy, a short pole set securely in the ground to fasten a guy to.

c. (See quot. a1884.)

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a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 869 Stub... 2. Short files for finishing in and around depressions.

d. U.S. colloquial. A man of insignificant stature. Cf. stub adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [noun] > person

dwarfeOE

congeonc1230

go-by-ground?a1300

smalla1300

shrimpc1386

griga1400

gruba1400

murche1440

nirvil1440

mitinga1450

witherling1528

wretchocka1529

elf1530

hop-o'-my-thumb1530

pygmy1533

little person1538

manikin1540

mankin1552

dandiprat1556

yrle1568

grundy1570

Jack Sprat1570

squall1570

manling1573

Tom Thumb1579

pinka1585

squib1586

screaling1594

giant-dwarf1598

twattle1598

agate1600

minimus1600

cock sparrow1602

dapperling1611

modicum1611

scrub1611

sesquipedalian1615

dwarflinga1618

wretchcock1641

homuncio1643

whip-handle1653

homuncule1656

whippersnapper1674

chitterling1675

sprite1684

carliea1689

urling1691

wirling1691

dwarf man1699

poppet1699

durgan1706

short-arse1706

tomtit1706

Lilliputian1726

wallydraigle1736

midge1757

minikin1761

squeeze-crab1785

minimum1796

niff-naff1808

titman1818

teetotum1822

squita1825

cradden1825

nyaff1825

weed1825

pinkeen1850

fingerling1864

Lilliput1867

thumbling1867

midget1869

inch1884

shorty1888

titch1888

skimpling1890

stub1890

scrap1898

pygmoid1922

lofty1933

peewee1935

smidgen1952

pint-size1954

pint-sized1973

munchkin1974

1890 J. Curtin tr. H. Sienkiewicz With Fire & Sword xliv. 514 I have something to say to this little stub of an officer.

e. A short length of wire used in flower-arranging. Cf. stub wire n. at Compounds 2 below.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > floriculture and flower arranging > [noun] > equipment

beau-pot1766

bouquetier1786

flower-stand1838

spray1862

rose bowl1878

stem-glass1922

pinholder1946

stub1951

stub wire1960

oasis1961

1951 R. A. Birch et al. Mod. Florist ix. 83 On the bench is fixed the wire tidy..a set of upright metal cylinders or holders into which the wires, or ‘stubs’, are placed.

1951 R. A. Birch et al. Mod. Florist ix. 88 Next we come to ‘invisible wiring’ with ordinary stubs.

1960 V. Stevenson in T. A. Price et al. Retail Florist's Handbk. iii. 66 Stem wires, often called stub wires (one assumes because they are stubbed into the design), vary from 3½ to 18 inches in length... Twenty gauge..is the most widely used wreath stub.

1963 M. Smith Arranging Flowers viii. 83 With a very fragile stem it is best to lay a stub-wire against it..and to twist fuse-wire round both the stub and the stem to bind them together.

8. Mechanics. A stud or projection; spec. in a lock, a stationary stud which acts as a detent for the tumblers when their slots are in engagement with it.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > lock > part of lock > tumbler > projection on

stub1561

tumbler-pin1853

tusk1875

1561 R. Eden tr. M. Cortés Arte Nauigation iii. xi. sig. K vi^v But for the Sea, you shall sother the Horizon two Axes, lyttle stubbes, or endes commyng foorth.

1779 Brit. Patent 1200 (1856) 1 An improvement on the tumbler and spring by means of a stub or projection so exactly fitted to a passage or opening in the bolt as not to permit the bolt to pass unless [etc.].

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 324 [Maudslay's lathes.] In the part C is an oblique slit l l, to receive a stub which projects from the bottom of the nut n,..by this arrangement it is obvious that if the screw m is worked, the stub of the nut n, acting against the slide of the slit l l, as an inclined plane, will move it either backwards or forwards through the opening M.

a. The remaining portion of something (more or less cylindrical) that has been broken or worn down; a stump, fag-end; spec. the butt or stump of a cigar or cigarette.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] > remaining fragment

stobc1420

end1481

stump1516

fragment1531

stuba1533

remainder?1570

remain1572

fag1582

snub1590

remnant1597

butt1612

heeltap1776

hagsnar1796

tag-end1807

shank1828

nuba1834

nubbin1857

snar1892

the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > thing which may be smoked > cigar or cigarette > butt or end of

doup1710

butt end1827

old soldier1834

butt1847

stub1855

cigar-end1870

stub-end1875

cigarette-end1889

cigar-butt1891

snipe1891

fag end1892

fag1897

bumper1899

scag1915

cigarette-butt1923

dout1928

dog-end1934

roach1939

stompie1947

a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) lvii. sig. Mv He gaue Arthur a grete stroke with the stubbe of his hurte arme.

1855 ‘Q. K. P. Doesticks’ Doesticks, what he Says xvi. 133 Perhaps they expect us to smoke ‘stubs’, like the newsboys.

1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xvii. 161 You can not throw an old cigar ‘stub’ down any where.

1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West 787 Even little darkeys watch for the ‘old stubs’ as they are thrown away.

1898 H. E. Hamblen Gen. Manager's Story xii. 191 There lay a fellow at full length,..smoking an old stub of a clay pipe.

1912 H. Belloc Four Men 27 ‘It is to sharpen this pencil with’, said the stranger, putting forth a stub of an H.B. much shorter than his thumb.

1914 ‘B. M. Bower’ Flying U Ranch 187 He spat upon the burnt end of his cigarette stub from force of the habit that fear of range fires had built.

1973 T. Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow iii. 319 The two of them sit there, passing a cigarette back and forth, till it's smoked down to a very small stub.

b. = stub-pen n. at Compounds 2. ? Obsolete.

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society > communication > writing > writing materials > writing instrument > [noun] > pen > broad-pointed pen

stub1829

J1885

stub-pen1891

J-pen1898

1829 C. Lamb Lett. (1935) III. 205 The comings in of an incipient conveyancer are not adequate to the receipt of three twopenny post non-paids in a week. Therefore, after this, I condemn my stub to long and deep silence.

10. U.S. A counterfoil. (Cf. French souche and stock n.¹ 42; also stump n.¹ 3h.)

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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > cheques and drafts > [noun] > draft form with counterfoil > counterfoil

foila1483

check1706

counterstock1706

counterfoil1865

stub1876

1876 N. Amer. Rev. 123 301 For which check stubs representing only small amounts were retained.

1884 Harper's Mag. June 61/2 Pay-rolls, check-book stubs, registers,..are here stowed away.

1916 A. B. Reeve Poisoned Pen 181 ‘Number 156’ Herndon noted, as the collector detached the stub and handed it to her.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

a. (In sense 1.)

stub-oak n.

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1880 R. D. Blackmore Mary Anerley xl A thicket of stub oak.

stub-wood n.

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1772 Philos. Trans. 1771 (Royal Soc.) 61 155 The woods..have great plenty of chesnut, both timber and stub wood.

1787 W. Marshall Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Norfolk II. 389 Stubwood, all wood which grows in hedgerows and does not come under the denomination of ‘timbers’, ‘pollards’, or ‘thorns’, is called ‘stubwood’.

b. (In sense 4.)

stub-thatched adj.

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1872 J. G. Michie Deeside Tales (1908) 255 A little stub-thatched cottage.

c. (In sense 4d.)

stub-bearded adj.

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1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed xiv. 280 A stub-bearded, bowed creature wearing a dirty magenta coloured neckcloth outside an unbrushed coat.

d. (In sense 9b.)

stub-pointed adj.

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1909 Daily Chron. 18 Sept. 10/6 advt. In this trial box of specially assorted pens you are offered a wonderful variety of fine, medium, and stub-pointed pens to suit all hands.

C2.

stub-axle n. (see quots.).

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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > parts of wheels > axle

axle-treec1400

axisa1620

arbor1659

ax-tree1659

axle1730

turning-beam1766

stud centre1851

stub-axle1875

crank-axle1887

banjo axle1922

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2431/1 Stub-axle, a short axle attached on the end of a principal axle-tree.

1907 M. J. P. O'Gorman Motor Pocket Bk. (ed. 2) 505 The stub axle is the short axle which is so pivoted that the front (or steering) wheels can be deflected.

stub-barrel n. a gun-barrel made of strips of stub-iron.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > barrel > types of

pistol barrel1663

rifle barrel1766

stub-barrel1833

twist barrel1833

stub1853

full choke1876

1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 101 The Birmingham workmen, in preparing the material for stub barrels, usually cut up strips of iron and steel,..into bits like two inch nails.

stub-book n. U.S. a book containing only the counterfoils of cheques or other documents.

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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > cheques and drafts > [noun] > cheque > chequebook > containing stubs or counterfoils

stub-book1886

stump-end1894

1886 Rep. of U.S. Sec. of Treasury 700 The filed stub-books of stamps, now occupying a very large and rapidly increasing space in the files rooms.

stub-bred adj. Hunting (see quot. 1897).

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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [adjective] > of or relating to fox > bred above ground

stub-bred1826

stump-bred1897

1826 J. Cook Fox-hunting 57 Stub bred foxes are thought to be the stoutest.

1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 583/1 (Hunting, fox) Stub-bred, Stump-bred. Foxes which, in certain districts, make their lairs in bushes or stumps instead of underground; stubbed was the old term.

stub Damascus n. a kind of stub-iron resembling Damascus iron.

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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > iron > [noun] > type of iron > other types of iron

landiron1428

wood-iron1536

bullate1591

bullet-iron1686

tough-iron1686

Russia iron1751

Russian iron1758

sable1785

Russia1805

stub-iron1820

bushel-iron1831

Russia sheet-iron1835

stub-nail iron1839

stub Damascus1845

Berlin iron1854

charcoal-iron1858

Bessemer iron1864

tank-iron1864

ship-plate1873

ingot iron1877

tank-plate1892

structural1895

Armco1914

1845 Penny Cycl. Suppl. I. 673 Stub Damascus is a very beautiful kind of iron formed like the Damascus iron above described.

1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. xi. 7/2 Double gun, stub Damascus barrels.

stub-dig n. dialect = stub-hoe n.

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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > uprooting tool

meak1478

pease-meak1583

grubber1598

grub-axe1611

dog1727

pea-make1794

hop-dog1796

eradicator1807

stub-dig1837

stub-hoe1858

grub-hoea1884

grub-hook1884

1837 Boston Advertiser 17 Jan. 2/2 Thomas Chapman..charged with stealing a stub dig.

† stub eel n. Obsolete some variety of eel.

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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > subdivision Teleostei > [noun] > order Anguilliformes > unspecified types

pimpernol1251

shaft-eel1411

kempc1440

snig1483

stub eel15..

fausen1547

shafflin1553

muraena1555

scaffling1589

grig1611

long-fish1611

stone-grig1666

sea-serpent1752

bed-eel1769

sniggle1863

slipper1866

15.. in W. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum (1655) I. 81/2 Also to be sure of xij. stubbe elles and lx. schafte eles to bake for the covent on shere thursday.

1545 Rates Custome House sig. bj Elis called stubbe elis.

1582 Rates Custome House (new ed.) sig. Bvij ^v Eeles called stub Eeles.

stub-end n. (a) the butt end of a connecting-rod, of a weapon, etc.; (b) U.S. the unconnected end of a stub track; also stub-end track (see stub track n. below); (c) a cigarette stub (in quot. 1932 figurative).

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the world > space > shape > flaring at extremity > [noun] > thick end of anything

buttc1425

butt end1548

butt-head1630

chump1861

stub-end1875

society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > track > at terminus

stub-end track1875

stub track1896

society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > track > at terminus > unconnected end of

stub-end1875

the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > thing which may be smoked > cigar or cigarette > butt or end of

doup1710

butt end1827

old soldier1834

butt1847

stub1855

cigar-end1870

stub-end1875

cigarette-end1889

cigar-butt1891

snipe1891

fag end1892

fag1897

bumper1899

scag1915

cigarette-butt1923

dout1928

dog-end1934

roach1939

stompie1947

1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Stub-end, the large end of a connecting-rod, in which the boxes are confined by the strap.

1896 Engineering News XXXVI. 27/1 When a long stub-end track gets full of empties, the cars at the stub end are likely to remain for weeks and months.

1900 Engineering News XLIV. 377/2 Stub-end tracks should generally be in pairs, with crossovers near the ends, so that the engine of one incoming train can be got out without waiting for its train.

1903 W. M. Camp Notes Track Constr. I. vi. 466 An arrangement that is sometimes provided where inbound, outbound and transfer houses are consolidated at one point is to have parallel stub tracks, with the inbound house on one side, the outbound house on the opposite side and the office between them, at the stub ends of the tracks.

1914 Daily News 7 Nov. 1 Even if he has nothing more formidable than an empty bully-beef can to rattle with the stub-end of his bayonet.

1932 W. H. Auden Orators iii. 85 Stub-end of year that smoulders to ash of winter.

† stub-faced adj. slang Obsolete (see quot. 1788).

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the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [adjective] > scar > of plague or smallpox

pock-broken1440

pock eaten?1536

pock-frettena1638

pock-fret1652

pock-holed1653

pockmarked1685

pock-fretted1693

pock frecken1695

pock-pittena1697

pock-freckled1714

pock-pitted1746

cribbage-faced1785

pock-arred1787

stub-faced1788

plague-spotted1819

brookita1908

1788 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 2) Stub-faced, pitted with small-pox: the devil run over his face with horse stubbs (horse nails) in his shoes.

stub-feather n. (see quot. 1847).

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the world > animals > birds > feather > [noun] > ungrown feather

pinfeather?1680

pen1810

stob-feather1825

stub-feather1847

pen-feather1849

1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Stub-feathers, the short unfledged feathers on a fowl after it has been plucked.

1889 Cornhill Mag. Apr. 376 It is a rare thing not to find stub feathers somewhere about a hawk or an owl.

stub-hoe n. an implement for grubbing up stubs.

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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > uprooting tool

meak1478

pease-meak1583

grubber1598

grub-axe1611

dog1727

pea-make1794

hop-dog1796

eradicator1807

stub-dig1837

stub-hoe1858

grub-hoea1884

grub-hook1884

1858 R. W. Emerson Eloquence in Atlantic Monthly Sept. 396/1 He is a graduate of the plough, and the stub-hoe, and the bush-whacker.

stub-iron n. a tenacious kind of iron, originally made out of old horseshoe nails.

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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > iron > [noun] > type of iron > other types of iron

landiron1428

wood-iron1536

bullate1591

bullet-iron1686

tough-iron1686

Russia iron1751

Russian iron1758

sable1785

Russia1805

stub-iron1820

bushel-iron1831

Russia sheet-iron1835

stub-nail iron1839

stub Damascus1845

Berlin iron1854

charcoal-iron1858

Bessemer iron1864

tank-iron1864

ship-plate1873

ingot iron1877

tank-plate1892

structural1895

Armco1914

1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 225 Some manufacturers enclose a quantity of stub-iron in a cylinder of best foreign iron.

† stub-money n. Obsolete (see quot. 1776).

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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > fee for services rendered > [noun] > payments for other specific services

barber feec1380

alnage1418

school fee1512

pinlocka1525

warden-fee1531

wait fee1563

fullage1611

pipe-moneya1637

marriage money1674

sharping-corn1681

spy-money1713

crimpage1732

cooperage1755

stirrup money1757

stub-money1776

membership fee1860

1776 Compl. Grazier (ed. 4) 78 The woodward is allowed a shilling a range, as above, (called stub-money) for his care in looking after the wood.

stub mortise n. a mortise that is cut only partially through the timber.

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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > wooden structures or wooden parts of > means of fitting together > types of joint > groove or cavity

rabbeta1382

rabbetinga1382

mortise1440

pulley mortise1733

chase1823

housing1823

stub mortise1846

dado1875

trench1923

1846 J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang. Stub-mortise, a mortise that does not pass through the timber mortised.

stub-mortised adj. secured by a stub mortise.

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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [adjective] > joined > with specific joint

mortised1538

dovetailed1656

scarfed1704

tenoned1770

tongued and grooved1773

mitred1775

mitre-jointed1791

matched1833

stub-mortised1833

dadoed1859

lap-jointed1874

t. and g.1948

1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §1251 With an oak cap properly stub-mortised.

stub-nail n. = sense 6.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > nail > short and thick

stub1394

stob1496

stob-pin1571

stub-nail1639

stump nail1704

stob-nail1728

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > iron > [noun] > type of iron > scrap iron

old iron1383

stub1394

stub-nail1639

scrap iron1823

nut-iron1825

scrap1846

1639 G. Plattes Discov. Subterraneall Treasure 41 I took 4. ounces of Iron in stub nailes.

1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 164 They chuse stub-Nails for the best Iron to Melt.

1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. Stub-Nails are driven on the outside of the nave-hoops, to keep them in their places.

stub-nail iron n. = stub-iron n.

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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > iron > [noun] > type of iron > other types of iron

landiron1428

wood-iron1536

bullate1591

bullet-iron1686

tough-iron1686

Russia iron1751

Russian iron1758

sable1785

Russia1805

stub-iron1820

bushel-iron1831

Russia sheet-iron1835

stub-nail iron1839

stub Damascus1845

Berlin iron1854

charcoal-iron1858

Bessemer iron1864

tank-iron1864

ship-plate1873

ingot iron1877

tank-plate1892

structural1895

Armco1914

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 471 The best modern barrels for fowling pieces are constructed of stub-nail iron in this manner.

stub-pen n. originally a worn quill pen; hence a broad-pointed pen.

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society > communication > writing > writing materials > writing instrument > [noun] > pen > broad-pointed pen

stub1829

J1885

stub-pen1891

J-pen1898

1891 Cent. Dict. Stub pen.

1897 Westm. Gaz. 13 Jan. 5/1 The first signature is ‘Julian Pauncefote,’ written with an extra broad-pointed steel stub pen.

stub-rabbit n. dialect a rabbit that seeks shelter among stubs instead of going to ground.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Oryctolagus (rabbit) > defined by habitat

parker1840

stub-rabbit1845

hedgehog1846

wood-rabbit1891

1845 Zoologist 3 903 There is a variety..called..in the northern parts of the same county [Herts.] the stub-rabbit.

stub-short n. = stub-shot n.

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1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Stub-short..1. The unsawed portion of a plank where it is split from the bolt or log. 2. (Turning.) The portion by which an object to be turned is grasped or chucked.

stub-shot n. (see quot. 1875).

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > sawn > waste piece(s) left after sawing

paling board?c1663

stump-shot1812

stub-shot1875

offcut1960

1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Stub-shot. 1. The unsawed portion of a plank where it is split from the bolt or log. 2. (Turning.) The portion by which an object to be turned is grasped or chucked.

stub-side n. the side of a swath which has the cut ends of the stems.

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > crop as it falls cut > cut end of

stub-side1733

stubs1764

1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xiv. 86 'Tis best to raise up the Ear-sides first, and let the Stub-side rest on the Ground in turning.

stub station n. U.S. a railway station at which the tracks terminate.

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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > station > other types

stopping station1840

way station1840

flag-station1852

by-station1864

transfer station1869

junction1876

stationette1891

station house1891

halt1910

stub station1916

ghost station1928

whistle-stop1934

parkway1972

1916 J. A. Droege Passenger Terminals v. 104 The head or stub station is an end-of-the-line station.

1916 J. A. Droege Passenger Terminals v. 104 Practically all the terminals in New York City are built on the stub station plan.

1929 Amer. Railway Engineering Assoc. Man. xiv. 960 The through and loop types of station are superior to the stub station from the standpoint of train operation.

stub-switch n. U.S. (see quot. 1909).

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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > track > points > types of

spring point1757

catch point1873

stub-switch1885

trap-point1885

trailing points1889

1885 G. Mordecai Rep. Terminal Facilities 6 The tracks are of good material, laid with stub switches and railfrogs.

1903 W. M. Camp Notes Track Constr. I. 292 The stub switch, with its open joint in winter and tight joint in summer, with a loose head block to be tampered with every few days.

1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Stub switch, Railroading, a switch in which the track rails are cut off squarely at the toe and the switch rails are thrown to butt end to end with the lead rails.

stub-tail n. (a) a partridge at a certain stage of growth; (b) see quot. 1867; also used of maize; (c) a short and thick or broad tail; also figurative.

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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Perdix (partridge) > young

stub-tail1686

flapper1747

yelper1802

cheeper1864

the world > food and drink > food > flour > [noun] > inferior flour

garnela1752

ship-stuff1793

batch-flour1862

stub-tail1867

red dog1880

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > rump and tail > [noun] > tail > short erect tail > short and thick

stub-tail1938

1686 R. Blome Gentlemans Recreation ii. 37/1 Larg Partridges called Stubtayls... There are several names or distinctions of Partridges; the first, when newly hatched, are called White~heads, the second Names are Chick-tayls, the third Stub-tayls.

1867 P. L. Simmonds Commerc. Dict. Trade Products (rev. ed.) Suppl. Stubtail, Stump~tail, names in North America for flour made out of damaged wheat and good wheat ground together.

1873 Spider & Fly iv. i. 19 This corn is the Illinois growth of 1857, and is called ‘stub-tail’ because about one-third of it is rotten.

1938 L. MacNeice Zoo 234 They [sc. bears] showed their stub-tails.

1973 Times 17 May 35/1 Compared with the 1100 it has a more streamlined bonnet curving down to a low radiator grille, and a stub tail somewhat reminiscent of the Hillman Avenger.

stub-tenon n. (see quot. 1875).

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tenon14..

tenora1485

rabbet1678

dovetail1691

relish1703

teaze-tenon1703

coak1794

table1794

tusk tenon1825

tonguing1841

tongue1842

pin1847

cog1858

stub-tenon1875

cross-tongue1876

1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Stub-tenon, a short tenon at the foot of an upright, such as the scantling or studding of a partition or a floor~bearer.

1910 J. Bartlett in Encycl. Brit. V. 387/2 A stub tenon or joggle (fig. 14) is used for fixing a post to a sill.

stub-toed adj. of a shoe: having a broad toe.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > [adjective] > with specific type of toe

picked1615

square-toe1706

square-toed1785

stub-toed1930

open-toe1938

peep-toe1939

peep-toed1953

chisel1961

1930 J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel 134 He'd..clatter up and down stairs making a tremendous racket with his stubtoed ironplated shoes.

stub-tooth n. Mechanics (see quot. 1909).

ΚΠ

1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Stub tooth, Mach., a short gear tooth of great strength, with a large angle of obliquity.

stub track n. U.S. a railway track, usually at a terminus, connected to another at one end only; see also stub-end track above.

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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > track > at terminus

stub-end track1875

stub track1896

1896 Engineering News XXXVI. 27/1 The empty car storage tracks on Mr. Derr's diagram are very long stub tracks, which are objectionable.

1921 Railway Engin. & Maintenance of Way Cycl. 348/1 A freight terminal is commonly considered an important freight station served by stub tracks.

1956 Railway Track & Structures Cycl. (ed. 8) 425/2 Bumping posts are obstructions placed at the end of stub tracks.

stub-twist n. a material for fine gun-barrels, composed of a ribbon of stub-iron twisted into a spiral shape.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > production and development of arms > [noun] > manufacture of firearms and ammunition > materials

metal1591

skelp1811

stub-twist1843

coil1859

gun-iron1881

1843 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. I. 221 The complex and ornamental figures for the barrels of fowling-pieces, described as ‘stub-twist, wire-twist, Damascus-twist.’

stub wing n. Aeronautics (see quot. 1956).

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > rotary wing aircraft > [noun] > parts of rotary wing aircraft > short wing on autogiros

stub wing1931

society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > stabilizer > stabilizer on seaplane

sponson1928

stub wing1931

stub1935

society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > plane or aerofoil > wing > part next to fuselage

wing root1906

stub wing1931

1931 Flight 2 Jan. 16/2 The lower stub wings form part of the landing gear structure.

1956 W. A. Heflin U.S. Air Force Dict. 496/2 Stub wing,..1. A short wing, esp. as used on certain autogiros. 2. That part of a wing on certain airplanes that lies next to the fuselage, to which the rest of the wing, separately built, is attached... 3. Short for ‘stubwing stabilizer.’..Stubwing stabilizer, a hydro~stabilizer on a flying boat.

1958 Times Rev. Industry Aug. 39/2 The [Rotodyne] fixed stubwing..takes over the task of supporting the aircraft.

stub-winged adj.

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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [adjective] > having specific type or position of wings

multiplane1897

monoplane1907

all-wing1919

mid-wing1934

delta-winged1950

tilt-wing1953

stub-winged1957

wet wing1961

1957 Times Surv. Brit. Aviation Sept. 2/6 Bristol are sending the stub-winged twin-rotor Type 173.

stub wire n. = sense 7e above.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > floriculture and flower arranging > [noun] > equipment

beau-pot1766

bouquetier1786

flower-stand1838

spray1862

rose bowl1878

stem-glass1922

pinholder1946

stub1951

stub wire1960

oasis1961

1960 [see sense 7e]. 1963 [see sense 7e].

1976 Eastern Evening News (Norwich) 22 Dec. 4/8 (advt.) Oasis (dry and wet). Dried flowers. Stub wires and a large selection of containers.

Draft additions 1993

Aeronautics (a) A short projection from the hull of a flying boat, to aid lateral stability on the water, or from the fuselage of an aircraft, for carrying equipment, ordnance, etc.; a stub wing; (b) a short exhaust outlet on a piston-engined aircraft.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > stabilizer > stabilizer on seaplane

sponson1928

stub wing1931

stub1935

society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > outlet for exhaust gases > short outlet on piston-engined aircraft

stub1935

1935 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 39 823 A recent proposal for a large tailless flying boat having a pterodactyl wing plus stubs, a combination of two experimental features.

1935 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 39 826 With regard to the use of sponsons or stubs, he had understood Mr. Coombes to say that one could reckon on some aerodynamic lift from the stub.

1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 3 Oct. 21 We were sure she was not ‘blowing’ on any of the stubs.

1959 J. L. Nayler Dict. Aeronaut. Engin. 265 Stub,..Stub Wing, a short length of plane projecting from an aeroplane fuselage or a seaplane hull.

1969 Gloss. Aeronaut. & Astronaut. Terms (B.S.I.) v. 11 Stub, a projection from a hull to give lateral stability on the water.

1987 Air Internat. Apr. 203/1 For the first production Hurricanes, Hawker had developed exhaust stubs..but an alternative ejector-type stub developed by Rolls-Royce was found to be worth 2 mph (3,2 km/h) and was adopted instead.

Draft additions 1993

Finance (originally U.S.). (a) An option entitling an investor who sells his holding in a limited company to its management during a leveraged buyout to purchase ordinary shares at a specified future date; (b) the small amount of devalued equity remaining to shareholders following such a buyout; its quoted price. Frequently attributive.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [noun] > block of > small

tranchette1982

stub1984

stub equity1987

1984 Amer. Banker 9 Jan. 3/1 Dean Witter recommends that this stock, which it values only for the discounted present values of its dividend stream and its eventual $2 stub, should be sold and any proceeds of more than $12 a share looked upon as ‘found money’.

1987 N.Y. Times 7 Apr. d5/1 Analysts and money managers valued the equity portion of the offer—also called the ‘stub’—at between $6 and $10 a share.

1987 Observer 7 June 33/1 The shareholders..cash in on the juggling of company assets (with the inevitable replacement of equity with debt) and then stay on for the ride on an albeit debt-ridden ‘stub’ which continues to be traded on the stock market.

1989 Sunday Times 25 June d1/3 The value put on the stub is crucial.

1989 Daily Tel. 30 Oct. (Management Buyouts Suppl.) p. viii/8 It was hoped that institutional shareholders..might be more willing to accept offers from incumbent management if a stub element were included.

Draft additions 1993

stub equity n. = sense Additions (b) above.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [noun] > block of > small

tranchette1982

stub1984

stub equity1987

1987 Forbes 23 Mar. 173/3 Companies that were bought out through leveraged deals have provided some enormous benefits for investors in what the takeover types call stub equity, that 5% to 25% of the deal involving stock issues.

1989 Sunday Times 28 May d1/1 One option is for Warburg to produce some form of ‘stub equity’, enabling Smith's fans to participate in the leveraged takeover.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

stubv.¹

Brit.

/stʌb/, U.S.

/stəb/

Forms: Inflected stubbed

/stʌbd/, stubbing. Also Middle English stobe, Middle English–1500s stubbe, 1600s stube, stubb.

Etymology: < stub n. Compare Swedish stubba, Danish stubbe.

a. transitive. To dig up by the roots; to grub up (roots). Chiefly with up.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > extract [verb (transitive)] > root out or up

louka1000

morec1325

roota1387

unroot?a1425

stubc1450

roota1500

rid?1529

root-walt?1530

subplant1547

supplant1549

root?1550

grub1558

eradicate1564

to stump up1599

deracinate1609

uproot1695

aberuncate1731

eracinate1739

rootle1795

disroot1800

piggle1847

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > reclaim [verb (transitive)] > clear land > remove roots

stockc1440

stock1458

extirp1490

displanta1492

supplant1549

stub1555

grub1558

to stump up1599

averruncate1623

extirpate1651

stump1791

c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 26 Alle paryschenys þat hewyn doun violently, or stubbyn, pullyn, or schredyn, or croppyn, ony treen in cherche-ȝerde.

1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. vii. 160 In the forenoone thei plante and graffe, digge vp settes, stubbe vp rootes.

1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 31^v Goe breake vp land, gett mattock in hand. Stub roote so tough, for breaking of plough.

1574 in J. J. Cartwright Chapters Hist. Yorks. (1872) 75 Wyth lyberty to take and stubbe the trees and bushes.

a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1957) III. 286 If one give me a timber tree for my house, I know not whether the root be mine or no, whether I may stub it by that gift.

1639 tr. J. A. Comenius Porta Linguarum Reserata (new ed.) xlviii. §529 A woodmonger felleth down trees, and stubes them up by the roots.

1695 J. Miller Descr. New York (1843) 9 He..may..by stubbing up the trees and brushwood, have good arable land or pastures.

1709 J. Swift Baucis & Philemon 9 'Tis hard to be believ'd, How much the other Tree was griev'd; Grew Surly, Died, at Top was Stunted, So the next Parson Stubb'd, and burnt it.

1791 R. Mylne 2nd Rep. Navigation Thames 10 Some Thorn-Bushes should be stubbed out of the Bank.

1866 A. Trollope Belton Estate I. iii. 71 The roots want stubbing up horribly.

1888 A. Jessopp Coming of Friars v. 238 He was found to have stubbed up a hedge which had been the boundary of the land.

b. figurative. Now rare.

ΚΠ

c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 77 He schal stubbyn þe vp, londe & roote, & cachyn þe out of þi dwellyng-place.

c1571 E. Campion Two Bks. Hist. Ireland (1963) i. ix. 34 That theise strangers wold indevor either to stub out that unruly generacion or to nurture them.

1651 G. Firmin Serious Quest. sig. B This Opinion will stub up all the Ordinances.

1662 J. Sergeant Jesuits Reasons (1675) 128 Unless such Tenets be stubbed out of the heads..of your Preachers.

1876 F. W. Farrar In Days of Youth xviii. 172 Beware that there be not—hidden deep under the soil of your heart—any sins and tendencies,..any vanities or lusts, which you have not as it were stubbed up.

†2. To dig out (gravel). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > earth-moving, etc. > [verb (transitive)] > dig (hole, etc.) > dig or break up (ground)

delvec888

dig1382

gruba1400

stubc1450

cast1497

sheugh1513

to search upc1540

stock1802

c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 265 But now schal I telle ȝow of þe howe or a pek-ex wherwyth ȝe muste stubbe out þe grauel.

3. To cut down (a tree, etc.) close to the root.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [verb (transitive)] > cut tree near roots

stub1594

grub-fell1787

1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. I^v His horse was trapt in the earthie stringes of tree rootes, which though their increase was stubbed downe to the grounde, yet were they not vtterly deaded.

1742 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Aug. xvi. 86 Turneps may be houghed ill, if the Hougher stubs them, as we call it, i.e. if he houghs them so shallow as to only cut off the Heads, and leave the Roots in the Ground.

1811 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. (new ed.) 88 Young trees must be planted, part of which may be preserved for timber, and the remainder left to be stubbed off for underwood.

4. To remove the stubs from (land). Also, to clear (land) of trees, furze, etc. by uprooting. Chiefly with up.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > reclaim [verb (transitive)] > clear land

redeeOE

ridlOE

grubc1374

stub1464

clot1483

shrub1553

clear1634

cure1719

stump1796

spade1819

slash1821

underbrush1824

to clean up1839

underbush1886

screef1913

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > reclaim [verb (transitive)]

ina1387

reclaim1440

improve1523

win1531

mitigate1601

reform1607

stuba1650

regain1652

redeem1671

reduce1726

to bring to1814

to bring in1860

to break in1891

green1967

1464 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 455 [He] schal stobe me klen serten kloses wethe in Powenses.

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 29 b Hee..pluckt downe Barnes and Store~houses, stubd vp Orchards and Vineyardes.

a1650 G. Boate Irelands Nat. Hist. (1652) xi. 99 That land..produced nothing but moss, heath, and short low furze: which herbs are fired upon the ground, and the ground stubbed, before it be plowed the first time.

1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy V. vii. 44 We shall have a terrible piece of work of it in stubbing the ox-moor.

1773 Ann. Reg. 1772 75/2 Paterson stubbed up ten acres of furze or whin ground.

1847 C. G. Addison Treat. Law Contracts (1883) ii. i. 244 He must not convert arable land into pasture..or stub up a wood to make it pasture.

1864 Ld. Tennyson Northern Farmer: Old Style vii, in Enoch Arden, etc. 131 An' I 'a stubb'd Thornaby waäste.

1889 Harper's Mag. Feb. 424/1 A large fenced-in field, well stubbed.

5. To remove the stub-feathers from (a fowl).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > poultry-keeping > rear poultry [verb (transitive)] > remove beak or feathers

dub1570

stump1821

stub1875

de-beak1937

1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. Stub, to pluck chicken clean after their feathers have been pulled off.

1901 Dundee Advertiser 3 May 7 The fowl is at once plucked and ‘stubbed,’..The plucking is done by men..and the stubbing, or the removal of the undeveloped feathers, by women.

6. To reduce to a stub or stump.

†a. To wear down (a quill pen). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > writing materials > writing instrument > [verb (transitive)] > wear down (quill pen)

stub1577

1577 J. Grange Golden Aphroditis sig. Dij Yet wold their inke be dried vp, their paper spent, their pennes stubbed.

1589 T. Nashe Anat. Absurditie sig. Aiiii What should I spend my yncke, waste my paper, stub my penne, in painting forth theyr vgly imperfections.

†b. To deprive of (a horn). In quot. 1658 figurative. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > loss > taking away > take away [verb (transitive)] > deprive (of) > deprive (a thing)

stub1658

strip1675

1658 J. Harrington Prerogative Pop. Govt. i. xii. 128 A Dilemma,..being a kind of argument that should not be stubb'd of one horne, but have each of equall length and danger.

c. To shorten and thicken by hammering.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > condition of being short and thick or broad > make short and thick [verb (transitive)]

stub1869

society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > forge or shape > in specific way

batterc1380

beat1483

peena1522

hammer1522

malleate1598

extenuate1599

upset1678

planish1688

to set down1703

foliate1704

raise1774

skelp1803

tilt1825

jump1851

cold-hammer1858

stub1869

upend1932

ding1939

coin1940

1869 Sandberg tr. Styffe Iron & Steel 11 The author ‘upset’ or stubbed the bars at the ends.

7. To cause (a horse) to be wounded with a stub. Also reflexive of the horse.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > cause injury or disease of horse [verb (transitive)] > stub or stake

stub1686

the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > of horse: have disorder [verb (reflexive)] > stub or stake

stub1686

stake1687

1686 London Gaz. No. 2126/4 Lost.., a brown bay Gelding,..the near Leg behind stubb'd with Leaping.

1702 London Gaz. No. 3850/4 Stolen or strayed.., a dun Nag.., was stub'd on the Fetlock Joint of one of the fore Legs.

1865 M. Lemon Loved at Last I. vi. 140 Pray keep on, sir, my horse has stubbed himself, I fancy.

1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. (at cited word) To stub a horse is to lame him by letting him tread on stubs of underwood in a cover.

8. ? To crush, pulverize (marl, etc. for spreading over land, road-material); to fill up the ruts in (a road) with crushed stones, etc. Also to stub in: to crush (road-metal) into the ruts.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > grinding or pounding > grind or pound [verb (transitive)]

grindc1000

i-ponec1000

britOE

poundOE

stampc1200

to-pounec1290

bruisea1382

minisha1382

bray1382

to-grind1393

beatc1420

gratec1430

mull1440

pestle1483

hatter1508

pounce1519

contuse1552

pounder1570

undergrind1605

dispulverate1609

peal1611

comminute1626

atom1648

comminuate1666

porphyrize1747

stub1765

kibble1790

smush1825

crack1833

pun1888

micronize1968

society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > paving and road-building > pave or build roads [verb (transitive)] > fill in gaps in road

stub1765

fascine1780

ballast1836

1765 Museum Rusticum 3 287 If with stone of the farmers, a load of thirty bushels will do three rods, which costs one shilling and a halfpenny stubbing and picking.

1795 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Essex 141 The blue and white chalky clay..should be stubbed and left exposed to the action of the air, sometime before it is carried out, and spread upon the land.

1800 Little Cornard (Suff.) Highway Acc. (MS.) P^d Rob^t. Sparrow for Stubbing the road from Parmers to Rowls pond, 0. 14. 5.

1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 165 The stones..are..dropped into the ruts, far better than a man can stub them in.

a. to stub (one's) toe (see quot. 1848.) Also figurative. Formerly chiefly U.S.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impact > impinge [verb (intransitive)] > against an obstacle with the foot > with the toe

stump1828

to stub (one's) toe1848

1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (at cited word) ‘To stub one's toe’, is to strike it against anything in walking or running; an expression often used by boys and others who go barefoot.

c1850 ‘Dow, Jr.’ in W. Jerdan Yankee Humour (1853) 58 When I stubbed my toes.

1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 114 You are rather liable to what Captain Eversfield graphically describes as ‘stub your toe’ against lava-like rock.

1906 A. Werner Natives Brit. Central Afr. vi. 140 The formation of a virulent ulcer every time a person stubbed a toe or barked a shin.

1957 Economist 19 Oct. 194/1 At a time when the Middle East has become more of a happy hunting ground for Russians seeking friends and influence than ever before, it is on Turkey that they are always stubbing their toe.

1967 Boston Sunday Herald 7 May (Show Guide) 17/2 The senator stubbed his toe just once, and Overbury has the goods on him. When the time comes to peddle them..knocking off Burden Day is easy.

1976 ‘J. Ross’ I know what it's like to Die xix. 126 It was a reputable organisation. At least, insofar as it hadn't stubbed its corporate toes on, or interfered with, anything under the supervision of the superintendent's own bailiwick.

b. U.S. colloquial. intransitive. ‘To walk along striking the toes against obstructions; go heedlessly; as, the boy stubs along to school’ ( Funk's Stand. Dict.). Also transferred and figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > heedlessly striking toes

stub1875

1875 C. B. Lewis Quad's Odds (ed. 2) 480 The writer will stub along through life with a heart full of joyfulness.

1878 B. F. Taylor Between Gates 241 An old whaler stubbing about estimated him [sc. a whale] at sixty barrels.

10. transitive. To cover with stubs.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > be or act as part of tree [verb (transitive)] > cover with stumps

stub1878

1878 W. C. Smith Hilda 61 Last of a great pine forest that stubs the heath with its roots For miles.

11. intransitive. Of a tree: To send out branches from the ‘stub’ when cut down.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > be part of tree or woody plant [verb (intransitive)] > send out branches when cut down (of tree)

stub1791

1791 Trans. Soc. Arts 9 20 The Spanish Chestnut..possesses a peculiar faculty of branching, provincially called stubbing, from the roots after being cut down.

12. transitive. To extinguish (a cigarette) by pressing the lighted end of the stub against a hard object. Frequently with out. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > use as material for smoking [verb (transitive)] > extinguish cigarette

stump1922

butt1924

stub1927

to butt out1950

society > occupation and work > industry > earth-moving, etc. > [verb (transitive)] > dig (hole, etc.) > dig up (object)

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digc1350

to dig upc1400

to dig outa1425

unearthc1450

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moil1581

sprittle1585

effodicate1599

moot1610

effode1657

to cast up1660

to rough out1834

exter1835

excavate1848

crow1853

stub1927

1927 Daily Express 28 Oct. 5 A new glass ash tray with cigarette rests has a glass stopper fitting in at the back which is used for stubbing one's smokes... On the stubber a Greek girl dancing, scarf in hand [is represented].

1930 J. Cannan No Walls of Jasper 116 He stubbed out his cigarette and smiled at her.

1955 P. Larkin in Listener 8 Sept. 373/1 I lie Where Mr. Bleaney lay, and stub my fags On the same saucer-souvenir.

1962 J. Braine Life at Top xxvi. 277 I looked round for an ashtray and for the fifth time since nine o'clock stubbed out my cigarette on the floor.

1970 R. Lowell Notebk. 214 A hand prepared to stub out liberty.

1974 ‘E. Ferrars’ Hanged Man's House xv. 149 There was always something that you could do with a cigarette, light it, draw on it, tip ash off it, stub it out.

1978 S. Radley Death & Maiden xi. 109 She stubbed out her cigarette with sudden vigour.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	stub
释义	stubn. Brit. /stʌb/, U.S. /stəb/ Forms: Old English stubb, styb(b, ( steb), Middle English–1600s stubbe, Middle English–1800s stubb, 1500s stoubbe, Middle English– stub. Etymology: Old English stub(b (masculine) = (Middle) Low German, Middle Dutch stubbe (early modern Dutch, West Frisian stobbe ), Old Norse stubb-r , stubbe , rarely stobbe (Middle Swedish stubbe , stobbe , Swedish, Norwegian stubbe , stubb , Danish stub ) < Germanic types stubbo-z , stubbon-* ; Old English had also stybb masculine < stuƀjo-z or stubbjo-z , which has coalesced with the other form. Old English had probably a form stob(b with o- umlaut (compare the Old Norse doublets above), whence stob n.¹; in the 14–16th cent., however, stob(b* may merely be a variant spelling for stub. To the same root (stūƀ- < pre-Germanic stūp- ) belong Old Norse stúf-r stump (Norwegian stuv ), (see stow v.²), Middle Low German stûve stump, fag-end, stûf blunt; outside Germanic compare Greek στύπος stump, stock, Latvian stups fag-end. 1. a. A stump of a tree or, more rarely, of a shrub or smaller plant; the portion left fixed in the ground when a tree has been felled; also, †a trunk deprived of branches. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [noun] > stump stock862 moreeOE stub967 zuche1358 stumpc1440 scrag1567 stool1577 brock1772 stow1774 hagsnar1796 stab1807 spronk1838 tree stool1898 967 Charter of Eadgar in Kemble Cod. Dipl. No. 813. III. 10 Andlang dices on ðone stubb. c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 108/5 Stipes, stipitis, treowwes steb. c1000 Ælfric Gram. (Z.) ix. 68 Hic stirps ðes stybb. 1301 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer (P.R.O.: E101/147/10) in G. J. Turner Sel. Pleas Forest (1901) 147/2 [Six] stubbs [sold for] 3s. 4d. 1348–9 in Blount's Law Dict. (1691) at Zuche Rex concessit Thomæ de Colvile omnes Zoucheos aridos, vocat. Stubbes arborum succisorum, in Foresta de Galtres. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 2293 Gawayn..stode stylle as þe ston oþer a stubbe auþer. 146. in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 25 And it please to deliver unto Robert of Tymble a Stub, the which Mr. Controller granted unto his ward for him and his wife. 1519 W. Horman Vulgaria xxx. f. 247^v We went by strayte pathes full of stoubbys, busshys, and bryers. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. ix. sig. I^v Old stockes and stubs of trees, Whereon nor fruite nor leafe was euer seene. ?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) xii. 611 Yet, might my feete, on no stub fasten hold To ease my hands: the roots were crept so low Beneath the earth. 1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 264 Then went shee a little further, and on a stub, which was betweene two trees, she sate downe. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd i. 339 We here Live on tough roots and stubs . View more context for this quotation 1760 R. Brown Compl. Farmer: Pt. 2 101 When it [rape] hath been cut, the stubs of it will sprout again. 1772 Philos. Trans. 1771 (Royal Soc.) 61 138 In the forest of Kent,..there still remains several large old chesnut stubbs. 1795 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Essex 152 The remaining stub of the thistle. 1799 S. T. Coleridge Introd. Tale Dark Ladie 64 How boughs rebounding scourg'd his limbs, And low stubs gor'd his feet. 1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers I. iii. 42 Unsightly remnants of trees that had been partly destroyed by fire were seen rearing their..columns..above the pure white of the snow. These,..in the language of the country are termed stubbs. 1864 G. P. Marsh Man & Nature 109 In the United States..dead trees..are often allowed to stand until they fall of themselves. Such stubs, as they are popularly called, are..often deeply cut by the woodpeckers. 1895 I. Zangwill Master ii. xi. 268 The woodpeckers tapped on the hollow stubs. 1907 ‘J. Halsham’ Lonewood Corner 114 Before the stubs of the under~wood have sprouted again. †b. to buy (brushwood, etc.) on or at the stub: to buy on the ground, growing. Hence (?), to pay at the stub: to pay ready money. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > payment > pay [verb (intransitive)] > pay ready money to pitch and payc1450 to pay at the stub1532 the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [adverb] > while standing or before felling (to sell wood) upon the stock1340 to buy (brushwood, etc.) on or at the stub1532 1532 in Lett. & Papers Henry VIII (1965) V. 446 For thorns bought on the stubb... For edders and stakes bought likewise on the stub. 1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 15 In time go and bargaine..for fewell... To buy at the stub, is the best for the buier. 1615 S. Rowlands Melancholie Knight 13 A very Cobler shall as welcome be That payes his readie money at the stub, As I that come a trust to worships dub. 1795 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Essex 62 The under woods are cut down at eleven years growth, and..they sell at the stub for 3 l. 10 s. per acre. †c. The part of a tree-trunk close to the ground. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [noun] > stem, trunk, or bole > base of stub1558 butt end1601 tree-foot1855 stump1902 1558–9 Act 1 Eliz. c. 15 §1 No person..shall convert..to Coale or other Fuell for the making of Yron, any Tymber Tree..of the Breadthe of One Foot Square at the Stubbe. 1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) ii. xvii. 200/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I For what a thing it is to haue a ship growing on the stub, and sailing on the sea within the space of fiue and fiftie daies? 1637 Heywood in Naval Chron. 3 370 Timber,..ten feet at the stub or bottom. †d. A stock for grafting upon. In quot. 1587 figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > grafting > rootstock graff-stockc1503 stub1587 graftlinga1618 gribblea1641 free stock1658 rootstock1867 understock1937 1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) ii. i. 139/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I You shall see no fewer deeds of charitie doone, nor better grounded vpon the right stub of pietie than before. †2. figurative. A blockhead; = stock n.¹ 1c. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > stupid person, dolt, blockhead > [noun] asseOE sotc1000 beastc1225 long-ear?a1300 stock1303 buzzard1377 mis-feelinga1382 dasarta1400 stonea1400 dasiberd14.. dottlec1400 doddypoll1401 dastardc1440 dotterel1440 dullardc1440 wantwit1449 jobardc1475 nollc1475 assheada1500 mulea1500 dull-pate15.. peak1509 dulbert?a1513 doddy-patec1525 noddypolla1529 hammer-head1532 dull-head?1534 capon1542 dolt1543 blockhead1549 cod's head1549 mome1550 grout-head1551 gander1553 skit-brains?1553 blocka1556 calfa1556 tomfool1565 dunce1567 druggard1569 cobble1570 dummel1570 Essex calf1573 jolthead1573 hardhead1576 beetle-head1577 dor-head1577 groutnoll1578 grosshead1580 thickskin1582 noddyship?1589 jobbernowl1592 beetle-brain1593 Dorbel1593 oatmeal-groat1594 loggerhead1595 block-pate1598 cittern-head1598 noddypoop1598 dorbellist1599 numps1599 dor1601 stump1602 ram-head1605 look-like-a-goose1606 ruff1606 clod1607 turf1607 asinego1609 clot-poll1609 doddiea1611 druggle1611 duncecomb1612 ox-head1613 clod-polla1616 dulman1615 jolterhead1620 bullhead1624 dunderwhelpa1625 dunderhead1630 macaroona1631 clod-patea1635 clota1637 dildo1638 clot-pate1640 stupid1640 clod-head1644 stub1644 simpletonian1652 bottle-head1654 Bœotiana1657 vappe1657 lackwit1668 cudden1673 plant-animal1673 dolt-head1679 cabbage head1682 put1688 a piece of wood1691 ouphe1694 dunderpate1697 numbskull1697 leather-head1699 nocky1699 Tom Cony1699 mopus1700 bluff-head1703 clod skull1707 dunny1709 dowf1722 stupe1722 gamphrel1729 gobbin?1746 duncehead1749 half-wit1755 thick-skull1755 jackass1756 woollen-head1756 numbhead1757 beef-head1775 granny1776 stupid-head1792 stunpolla1794 timber-head1794 wether heada1796 dummy1796 noghead1800 staumrel1802 muttonhead1803 num1807 dummkopf1809 tumphya1813 cod's head and shoulders1820 stoopid1823 thick-head1824 gype1825 stob1825 stookiea1828 woodenhead1831 ning-nong1832 log-head1834 fat-head1835 dunderheadism1836 turnip1837 mudhead1838 donkey1840 stupex1843 cabbage1844 morepork1845 lubber-head1847 slowpoke1847 stupiditarian1850 pudding-head1851 cod's head and shoulders1852 putty head1853 moke1855 mullet-head1855 pothead1855 mug1857 thick1857 boodle1862 meathead1863 missing link1863 half-baked1866 lunk1867 turnip-head1869 rummy1872 pumpkin-head1876 tattie1879 chump1883 dully1883 cretin1884 lunkhead1884 mopstick1886 dumbhead1887 peanut head1891 pie-face1891 doughbakea1895 butt-head1896 pinhead1896 cheesehead1900 nyamps1900 box head1902 bonehead1903 chickenhead1903 thickwit1904 cluck1906 boob1907 John1908 mooch1910 nitwit1910 dikkop1913 goop1914 goofus1916 rumdum1916 bone dome1917 moron1917 oik1917 jabroni1919 dumb-bell1920 knob1920 goon1921 dimwit1922 ivory dome1923 stone jug1923 dingleberry1924 gimp1924 bird brain1926 jughead1926 cloth-head1927 dumb1928 gazook1928 mouldwarp1928 ding-dong1929 stupido1929 mook1930 sparrow-brain1930 knobhead1931 dip1932 drip1932 epsilon1932 bohunkus1933 Nimrod1933 dumbass1934 zombie1936 pea-brain1938 knot-head1940 schlump1941 jarhead1942 Joe Soap1943 knuckle-head1944 nong1944 lame-brain1945 gobshite1946 rock-head1947 potato head1948 jerko1949 turkey1951 momo1953 poop-head1955 a right one1958 bam1959 nong-nong1959 dickhead1960 dumbo1960 Herbert1960 lamer1961 bampot1962 dipshit1963 bamstick1965 doofus1965 dick1966 pillock1967 zipperhead1967 dipstick1968 thickie1968 poephol1969 yo-yo1970 doof1971 cockhead1972 nully1973 thicko1976 wazzock1976 motorhead1979 mouth-breather1979 no-brainer1979 jerkwad1980 woodentop1981 dickwad1983 dough ball1983 dickweed1984 bawheid1985 numpty1985 jerkweed1988 dick-sucker1989 knob-end1989 Muppet1989 dingus1997 dicksack1999 eight ball- 1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 3 Ye shall have more adoe to drive our dullest and laziest youth, our stocks and stubbs from the infinite desire of such a happy nurture. 3. A short piece of a broken branch remaining on the stem. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [noun] > bough or branch > spur or stump of branch or bud stubc1405 snag1577 brunt1623 skeg1625 stud1657 argot1693 spur1704 stump1707 wood-bud1763 nog1802 branch-bud1882 knee1889 knee-process1889 dard1925 c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1120 First on the wal was peynted a forest..With knotty, knarry, bareyne trees olde Of stubbes sharpe, and hidouse to biholde. c1440 Ipomydon 1270 My palfrey..stumblyd..I toke this harme, A stubbe smote me þrow þe arme. 1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 159 A Parcel of Stubs [Fr. chicots], springing out of one Side and the other. 1796 C. Marshall Introd. Knowl. & Pract. Gardening xii. 210 Whether it is best to cut all spare shoots clean out, or to cut..down to little stubs, or false spurs, is hardly yet determined. 1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 147 Some cut superfluous fruit-shoots clean away; others leave a sprinkling of short stubs, cut very short if foreright. 1884 Cent. Mag. Dec. 222/1 His drum was the stub of a dry limb about the size of one's wrist. 4. a. = stubble n. Also plural. Now dialect. [So Swedish stubbe, Danish stub.] ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > stubble arrishOE stub1250 stubble1297 pease stubble?1523 pease-etch1573 gratten1577 stumps1585 brush1686 etch1727 pea stubble1743 pease-eddish1789 stubble1792 shacklea1800 1250 Owl & Night. 506 Ȝet þu singst worse þon þe hei~sugge, [Þ]at fliȝþ bi grunde among þe stubbe. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Stubbe of corne, stipula, stupa. 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 246 If they are to sow wheat upon tillage, they choose wheat sown before upon bean stubs. 1811 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. (new ed.) 266 Stubs. The stubble of all corn is usually called stubs, as wheat-stubs, barley-stubs, &c. 1820 J. Clare Poems Rural Life (ed. 3) 95 But ill it suits thee in the stubs to glean. †b. plural. The lower ends of cut stems of plants. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > crop as it falls cut > cut end of stub-side1733 stubs1764 1764 Museum Rusticum 2 81 It [sc. reaped coleseed] must not be turned, but raised up gently and laid lightly on the stubs. †c. in the stub: said of growing flax. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > flax, hemp, or jute > [adverb] > in natural state in the stub1730 1730 J. Swift Answer Craftsman in Wks. (1905) VII. 222 All the said commodities shall be sent in their natural state; the hides raw, the wool uncombed, the flax in the stub. d. plural. Hair cut close to the skin. Now dialect. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > cut or cropped roundinga1582 stumps1584 stubs1607 trim1608 tonsure1650 committee cut1691 rasure1737 crop1795 county crop1839 flat-top1859 prison cropc1863 clip1889 Dartmoor crop1930 razor cut1940 prison haircut1948 scissor cut1948 cut1951 pudding basin1951 short back and sides1965 1607 R. Turner Nosce Te sig. D1 A chinne as free from beard as any dogge, Saue stubbes more hard then brisles of a hogge. 5. a. A splinter or thorn in the flesh. Now dialect. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irritation > [noun] > action of irritating > cause of irritation > one who or that which irritates fly?c1225 terrer1382 prickc1384 taryerc1440 stub1531 provokera1542 a mote in the eye1546 annoying1566 nettler1611 gadfly1622 flea-biter1629 exasperator1632 badgerer?1791 irritator1855 needler1874 nagger1881 holy terror1883 knob1920 jerkface1942 needle artist1982 d-bag1984 knob-end1989 hater1996 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour ii. xiii. sig. X Out of whose fote a yonge man had ones taken a stubbe. 1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. vii. 160 To draw a thorne, stub, iron, splinter, naile..out of the flesh of the horse. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Stub, in the manege, is used for a splinter of fresh-cut under~ wood, that goes into a horse's foot as he runs. 1894 R. D. Blackmore Perlycross II. xxi. 67 Upon a truss of furze, with a flour-sack to shield him from the stubs and prickles. †b. A stab or twinge of pain. Now dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [noun] > sudden pain stitchc1000 showera1300 shutea1300 gridea1400 gripa1400 shota1400 stounda1400 lancing1470 pang1482 twitch?1510 shooting1528 storm1540 stitching1561 stub1587 twinge1608 gird1614 twang1721 tang1724 shoot1756 darting1758 writhe1789 catch1830 lightning pain1860 twitcher1877 rash1900 1587 M. Grove Pelops & Hippodamia (1878) 86 Ixion nayled on the whirling wheele, Which hellish stubs & irksom pains doth feele. 6. a. A short thick nail (= stob n.¹ 4); a worn horseshoe nail, esp. in plural old horseshoe nails and other similar scraps as the material for making stub-iron. Cf. stub-nail n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > nail > short and thick stub1394 stob1496 stob-pin1571 stub-nail1639 stump nail1704 stob-nail1728 society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > iron > [noun] > type of iron > scrap iron old iron1383 stub1394 stub-nail1639 scrap iron1823 nut-iron1825 scrap1846 1394–5 in J. C. Atkinson Cartularium Abbathiæ de Whiteby (1881) II. 615 It. pro viii^xx cartnayle, x s. It. pro i^m stubs, ii s. 1595 R. Hasleton Strange & Wonderfull Things sig. Ciiij And immediatly searching about, I found an olde Iron stub, with the which I brake an hole thorow the chamber wall. 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. xiii. 86 Fill it with Pibble-stones, Nails, Stubs of old Iron. 1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 276 He ordered, that all the Guns..should be loaded with Musquet Balls, old Nails, Stubbs [etc.]. 1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 225 That kind which is of the most approved tenacity, is made of old horse-shoe nails or stubs. 1845 Penny Cycl. Suppl. I. 673 Horse-nails..which when worn out are collected with avidity as furnishing one of the best descriptions of scrap-iron, under the name of horse-nail stubs. 1846 W. Greener Sci. Gunnery (new ed.) 107 An equal substance of the best steel ever invented or made, is less in tenacity than a mixture similar to stubs and steel. 1863 E. C. Gaskell Sylvia's Lovers II. ii. 28 Hammers, beating out old iron, such as horse-shoes, nails or stubs, into the great harpoons. b. Short for stub-barrel n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > barrel > types of pistol barrel1663 rifle barrel1766 stub-barrel1833 twist barrel1833 stub1853 full choke1876 1853 A. Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) I. 724 The barrels of musquets, birding-guns, etc. or what are called plain, to distinguish them from those denominated stubs or twisted barrels. 7. a. Something that looks stunted or cut short, e.g. a rudimentary tail or horn. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > longitudinal extent > shortness > [noun] > that which is short long-little1653 stub1693 1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Compl. Gard'ner ii. v. xiv. 111 The Scutcheon cannot thrive, unless it be absolutely glued to the part to which it is apply'd; and consequently that part must be as smooth as the Scutcheon, which cannot be when a Scutcheon is apply'd upon an Eye, or Bud, which is an Elevated part, that forms a kind of Stub. 1694 Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. 33 They are shaped like English Hares..and instead of a Tail have a little stub about an inch long, without Hair on it. a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 377 There will remain a little stub at the end of the twig, which dries up. 1887 W. T. Hornaday in Smithsonian Rep. ii. 397 The horn [of the buffalo] at three months is about 1 inch in length, and is a mere little black stub. b. A short thick piece of wood. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > short piece of wood stickOE stub1833 1833 W. H. Maxwell Field Bk. 522 Stub,..a log. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. 605 At the distance of a foot behind the coulter-box a strong stub of wood is mortised into the beam at C. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. 605 The two stilts or handles are simply bolted to the stub. 1898 T. O'C. Sloane Standard Electr. Dict. (ed. 2) 622 Stub, Anchor guy, a short pole set securely in the ground to fasten a guy to. c. (See quot. a1884.) ΚΠ a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 869 Stub... 2. Short files for finishing in and around depressions. d. U.S. colloquial. A man of insignificant stature. Cf. stub adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [noun] > person dwarfeOE congeonc1230 go-by-ground?a1300 smalla1300 shrimpc1386 griga1400 gruba1400 murche1440 nirvil1440 mitinga1450 witherling1528 wretchocka1529 elf1530 hop-o'-my-thumb1530 pygmy1533 little person1538 manikin1540 mankin1552 dandiprat1556 yrle1568 grundy1570 Jack Sprat1570 squall1570 manling1573 Tom Thumb1579 pinka1585 squib1586 screaling1594 giant-dwarf1598 twattle1598 agate1600 minimus1600 cock sparrow1602 dapperling1611 modicum1611 scrub1611 sesquipedalian1615 dwarflinga1618 wretchcock1641 homuncio1643 whip-handle1653 homuncule1656 whippersnapper1674 chitterling1675 sprite1684 carliea1689 urling1691 wirling1691 dwarf man1699 poppet1699 durgan1706 short-arse1706 tomtit1706 Lilliputian1726 wallydraigle1736 midge1757 minikin1761 squeeze-crab1785 minimum1796 niff-naff1808 titman1818 teetotum1822 squita1825 cradden1825 nyaff1825 weed1825 pinkeen1850 fingerling1864 Lilliput1867 thumbling1867 midget1869 inch1884 shorty1888 titch1888 skimpling1890 stub1890 scrap1898 pygmoid1922 lofty1933 peewee1935 smidgen1952 pint-size1954 pint-sized1973 munchkin1974 1890 J. Curtin tr. H. Sienkiewicz With Fire & Sword xliv. 514 I have something to say to this little stub of an officer. e. A short length of wire used in flower-arranging. Cf. stub wire n. at Compounds 2 below. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > floriculture and flower arranging > [noun] > equipment beau-pot1766 bouquetier1786 flower-stand1838 spray1862 rose bowl1878 stem-glass1922 pinholder1946 stub1951 stub wire1960 oasis1961 1951 R. A. Birch et al. Mod. Florist ix. 83 On the bench is fixed the wire tidy..a set of upright metal cylinders or holders into which the wires, or ‘stubs’, are placed. 1951 R. A. Birch et al. Mod. Florist ix. 88 Next we come to ‘invisible wiring’ with ordinary stubs. 1960 V. Stevenson in T. A. Price et al. Retail Florist's Handbk. iii. 66 Stem wires, often called stub wires (one assumes because they are stubbed into the design), vary from 3½ to 18 inches in length... Twenty gauge..is the most widely used wreath stub. 1963 M. Smith Arranging Flowers viii. 83 With a very fragile stem it is best to lay a stub-wire against it..and to twist fuse-wire round both the stub and the stem to bind them together. 8. Mechanics. A stud or projection; spec. in a lock, a stationary stud which acts as a detent for the tumblers when their slots are in engagement with it. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > lock > part of lock > tumbler > projection on stub1561 tumbler-pin1853 tusk1875 1561 R. Eden tr. M. Cortés Arte Nauigation iii. xi. sig. K vi^v But for the Sea, you shall sother the Horizon two Axes, lyttle stubbes, or endes commyng foorth. 1779 Brit. Patent 1200 (1856) 1 An improvement on the tumbler and spring by means of a stub or projection so exactly fitted to a passage or opening in the bolt as not to permit the bolt to pass unless [etc.]. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 324 [Maudslay's lathes.] In the part C is an oblique slit l l, to receive a stub which projects from the bottom of the nut n,..by this arrangement it is obvious that if the screw m is worked, the stub of the nut n, acting against the slide of the slit l l, as an inclined plane, will move it either backwards or forwards through the opening M. 9. a. The remaining portion of something (more or less cylindrical) that has been broken or worn down; a stump, fag-end; spec. the butt or stump of a cigar or cigarette. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] > remaining fragment stobc1420 end1481 stump1516 fragment1531 stuba1533 remainder?1570 remain1572 fag1582 snub1590 remnant1597 butt1612 heeltap1776 hagsnar1796 tag-end1807 shank1828 nuba1834 nubbin1857 snar1892 the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > thing which may be smoked > cigar or cigarette > butt or end of doup1710 butt end1827 old soldier1834 butt1847 stub1855 cigar-end1870 stub-end1875 cigarette-end1889 cigar-butt1891 snipe1891 fag end1892 fag1897 bumper1899 scag1915 cigarette-butt1923 dout1928 dog-end1934 roach1939 stompie1947 a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) lvii. sig. Mv He gaue Arthur a grete stroke with the stubbe of his hurte arme. 1855 ‘Q. K. P. Doesticks’ Doesticks, what he Says xvi. 133 Perhaps they expect us to smoke ‘stubs’, like the newsboys. 1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xvii. 161 You can not throw an old cigar ‘stub’ down any where. 1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West 787 Even little darkeys watch for the ‘old stubs’ as they are thrown away. 1898 H. E. Hamblen Gen. Manager's Story xii. 191 There lay a fellow at full length,..smoking an old stub of a clay pipe. 1912 H. Belloc Four Men 27 ‘It is to sharpen this pencil with’, said the stranger, putting forth a stub of an H.B. much shorter than his thumb. 1914 ‘B. M. Bower’ Flying U Ranch 187 He spat upon the burnt end of his cigarette stub from force of the habit that fear of range fires had built. 1973 T. Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow iii. 319 The two of them sit there, passing a cigarette back and forth, till it's smoked down to a very small stub. b. = stub-pen n. at Compounds 2. ? Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > writing instrument > [noun] > pen > broad-pointed pen stub1829 J1885 stub-pen1891 J-pen1898 1829 C. Lamb Lett. (1935) III. 205 The comings in of an incipient conveyancer are not adequate to the receipt of three twopenny post non-paids in a week. Therefore, after this, I condemn my stub to long and deep silence. 10. U.S. A counterfoil. (Cf. French souche and stock n.¹ 42; also stump n.¹ 3h.) ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > cheques and drafts > [noun] > draft form with counterfoil > counterfoil foila1483 check1706 counterstock1706 counterfoil1865 stub1876 1876 N. Amer. Rev. 123 301 For which check stubs representing only small amounts were retained. 1884 Harper's Mag. June 61/2 Pay-rolls, check-book stubs, registers,..are here stowed away. 1916 A. B. Reeve Poisoned Pen 181 ‘Number 156’ Herndon noted, as the collector detached the stub and handed it to her. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. (In sense 1.) stub-oak n. ΚΠ 1880 R. D. Blackmore Mary Anerley xl A thicket of stub oak. stub-wood n. ΚΠ 1772 Philos. Trans. 1771 (Royal Soc.) 61 155 The woods..have great plenty of chesnut, both timber and stub wood. 1787 W. Marshall Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Norfolk II. 389 Stubwood, all wood which grows in hedgerows and does not come under the denomination of ‘timbers’, ‘pollards’, or ‘thorns’, is called ‘stubwood’. b. (In sense 4.) stub-thatched adj. ΚΠ 1872 J. G. Michie Deeside Tales (1908) 255 A little stub-thatched cottage. c. (In sense 4d.) stub-bearded adj. ΚΠ 1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed xiv. 280 A stub-bearded, bowed creature wearing a dirty magenta coloured neckcloth outside an unbrushed coat. d. (In sense 9b.) stub-pointed adj. ΚΠ 1909 Daily Chron. 18 Sept. 10/6 advt. In this trial box of specially assorted pens you are offered a wonderful variety of fine, medium, and stub-pointed pens to suit all hands. C2. stub-axle n. (see quots.). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > parts of wheels > axle axle-treec1400 axisa1620 arbor1659 ax-tree1659 axle1730 turning-beam1766 stud centre1851 stub-axle1875 crank-axle1887 banjo axle1922 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2431/1 Stub-axle, a short axle attached on the end of a principal axle-tree. 1907 M. J. P. O'Gorman Motor Pocket Bk. (ed. 2) 505 The stub axle is the short axle which is so pivoted that the front (or steering) wheels can be deflected. stub-barrel n. a gun-barrel made of strips of stub-iron. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > barrel > types of pistol barrel1663 rifle barrel1766 stub-barrel1833 twist barrel1833 stub1853 full choke1876 1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 101 The Birmingham workmen, in preparing the material for stub barrels, usually cut up strips of iron and steel,..into bits like two inch nails. stub-book n. U.S. a book containing only the counterfoils of cheques or other documents. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > cheques and drafts > [noun] > cheque > chequebook > containing stubs or counterfoils stub-book1886 stump-end1894 1886 Rep. of U.S. Sec. of Treasury 700 The filed stub-books of stamps, now occupying a very large and rapidly increasing space in the files rooms. stub-bred adj. Hunting (see quot. 1897). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [adjective] > of or relating to fox > bred above ground stub-bred1826 stump-bred1897 1826 J. Cook Fox-hunting 57 Stub bred foxes are thought to be the stoutest. 1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 583/1 (Hunting, fox) Stub-bred, Stump-bred. Foxes which, in certain districts, make their lairs in bushes or stumps instead of underground; stubbed was the old term. stub Damascus n. a kind of stub-iron resembling Damascus iron. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > iron > [noun] > type of iron > other types of iron landiron1428 wood-iron1536 bullate1591 bullet-iron1686 tough-iron1686 Russia iron1751 Russian iron1758 sable1785 Russia1805 stub-iron1820 bushel-iron1831 Russia sheet-iron1835 stub-nail iron1839 stub Damascus1845 Berlin iron1854 charcoal-iron1858 Bessemer iron1864 tank-iron1864 ship-plate1873 ingot iron1877 tank-plate1892 structural1895 Armco1914 1845 Penny Cycl. Suppl. I. 673 Stub Damascus is a very beautiful kind of iron formed like the Damascus iron above described. 1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. xi. 7/2 Double gun, stub Damascus barrels. stub-dig n. dialect = stub-hoe n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > uprooting tool meak1478 pease-meak1583 grubber1598 grub-axe1611 dog1727 pea-make1794 hop-dog1796 eradicator1807 stub-dig1837 stub-hoe1858 grub-hoea1884 grub-hook1884 1837 Boston Advertiser 17 Jan. 2/2 Thomas Chapman..charged with stealing a stub dig. † stub eel n. Obsolete some variety of eel. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > subdivision Teleostei > [noun] > order Anguilliformes > unspecified types pimpernol1251 shaft-eel1411 kempc1440 snig1483 stub eel15.. fausen1547 shafflin1553 muraena1555 scaffling1589 grig1611 long-fish1611 stone-grig1666 sea-serpent1752 bed-eel1769 sniggle1863 slipper1866 15.. in W. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum (1655) I. 81/2 Also to be sure of xij. stubbe elles and lx. schafte eles to bake for the covent on shere thursday. 1545 Rates Custome House sig. bj Elis called stubbe elis. 1582 Rates Custome House (new ed.) sig. Bvij ^v Eeles called stub Eeles. stub-end n. (a) the butt end of a connecting-rod, of a weapon, etc.; (b) U.S. the unconnected end of a stub track; also stub-end track (see stub track n. below); (c) a cigarette stub (in quot. 1932 figurative). ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > flaring at extremity > [noun] > thick end of anything buttc1425 butt end1548 butt-head1630 chump1861 stub-end1875 society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > track > at terminus stub-end track1875 stub track1896 society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > track > at terminus > unconnected end of stub-end1875 the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > thing which may be smoked > cigar or cigarette > butt or end of doup1710 butt end1827 old soldier1834 butt1847 stub1855 cigar-end1870 stub-end1875 cigarette-end1889 cigar-butt1891 snipe1891 fag end1892 fag1897 bumper1899 scag1915 cigarette-butt1923 dout1928 dog-end1934 roach1939 stompie1947 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Stub-end, the large end of a connecting-rod, in which the boxes are confined by the strap. 1896 Engineering News XXXVI. 27/1 When a long stub-end track gets full of empties, the cars at the stub end are likely to remain for weeks and months. 1900 Engineering News XLIV. 377/2 Stub-end tracks should generally be in pairs, with crossovers near the ends, so that the engine of one incoming train can be got out without waiting for its train. 1903 W. M. Camp Notes Track Constr. I. vi. 466 An arrangement that is sometimes provided where inbound, outbound and transfer houses are consolidated at one point is to have parallel stub tracks, with the inbound house on one side, the outbound house on the opposite side and the office between them, at the stub ends of the tracks. 1914 Daily News 7 Nov. 1 Even if he has nothing more formidable than an empty bully-beef can to rattle with the stub-end of his bayonet. 1932 W. H. Auden Orators iii. 85 Stub-end of year that smoulders to ash of winter. † stub-faced adj. slang Obsolete (see quot. 1788). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [adjective] > scar > of plague or smallpox pock-broken1440 pock eaten?1536 pock-frettena1638 pock-fret1652 pock-holed1653 pockmarked1685 pock-fretted1693 pock frecken1695 pock-pittena1697 pock-freckled1714 pock-pitted1746 cribbage-faced1785 pock-arred1787 stub-faced1788 plague-spotted1819 brookita1908 1788 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 2) Stub-faced, pitted with small-pox: the devil run over his face with horse stubbs (horse nails) in his shoes. stub-feather n. (see quot. 1847). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > feather > [noun] > ungrown feather pinfeather?1680 pen1810 stob-feather1825 stub-feather1847 pen-feather1849 1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Stub-feathers, the short unfledged feathers on a fowl after it has been plucked. 1889 Cornhill Mag. Apr. 376 It is a rare thing not to find stub feathers somewhere about a hawk or an owl. stub-hoe n. an implement for grubbing up stubs. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > uprooting tool meak1478 pease-meak1583 grubber1598 grub-axe1611 dog1727 pea-make1794 hop-dog1796 eradicator1807 stub-dig1837 stub-hoe1858 grub-hoea1884 grub-hook1884 1858 R. W. Emerson Eloquence in Atlantic Monthly Sept. 396/1 He is a graduate of the plough, and the stub-hoe, and the bush-whacker. stub-iron n. a tenacious kind of iron, originally made out of old horseshoe nails. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > iron > [noun] > type of iron > other types of iron landiron1428 wood-iron1536 bullate1591 bullet-iron1686 tough-iron1686 Russia iron1751 Russian iron1758 sable1785 Russia1805 stub-iron1820 bushel-iron1831 Russia sheet-iron1835 stub-nail iron1839 stub Damascus1845 Berlin iron1854 charcoal-iron1858 Bessemer iron1864 tank-iron1864 ship-plate1873 ingot iron1877 tank-plate1892 structural1895 Armco1914 1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 225 Some manufacturers enclose a quantity of stub-iron in a cylinder of best foreign iron. † stub-money n. Obsolete (see quot. 1776). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > fee for services rendered > [noun] > payments for other specific services barber feec1380 alnage1418 school fee1512 pinlocka1525 warden-fee1531 wait fee1563 fullage1611 pipe-moneya1637 marriage money1674 sharping-corn1681 spy-money1713 crimpage1732 cooperage1755 stirrup money1757 stub-money1776 membership fee1860 1776 Compl. Grazier (ed. 4) 78 The woodward is allowed a shilling a range, as above, (called stub-money) for his care in looking after the wood. stub mortise n. a mortise that is cut only partially through the timber. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > wooden structures or wooden parts of > means of fitting together > types of joint > groove or cavity rabbeta1382 rabbetinga1382 mortise1440 pulley mortise1733 chase1823 housing1823 stub mortise1846 dado1875 trench1923 1846 J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang. Stub-mortise, a mortise that does not pass through the timber mortised. stub-mortised adj. secured by a stub mortise. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [adjective] > joined > with specific joint mortised1538 dovetailed1656 scarfed1704 tenoned1770 tongued and grooved1773 mitred1775 mitre-jointed1791 matched1833 stub-mortised1833 dadoed1859 lap-jointed1874 t. and g.1948 1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §1251 With an oak cap properly stub-mortised. stub-nail n. = sense 6. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > nail > short and thick stub1394 stob1496 stob-pin1571 stub-nail1639 stump nail1704 stob-nail1728 society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > iron > [noun] > type of iron > scrap iron old iron1383 stub1394 stub-nail1639 scrap iron1823 nut-iron1825 scrap1846 1639 G. Plattes Discov. Subterraneall Treasure 41 I took 4. ounces of Iron in stub nailes. 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 164 They chuse stub-Nails for the best Iron to Melt. 1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. Stub-Nails are driven on the outside of the nave-hoops, to keep them in their places. stub-nail iron n. = stub-iron n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > iron > [noun] > type of iron > other types of iron landiron1428 wood-iron1536 bullate1591 bullet-iron1686 tough-iron1686 Russia iron1751 Russian iron1758 sable1785 Russia1805 stub-iron1820 bushel-iron1831 Russia sheet-iron1835 stub-nail iron1839 stub Damascus1845 Berlin iron1854 charcoal-iron1858 Bessemer iron1864 tank-iron1864 ship-plate1873 ingot iron1877 tank-plate1892 structural1895 Armco1914 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 471 The best modern barrels for fowling pieces are constructed of stub-nail iron in this manner. stub-pen n. originally a worn quill pen; hence a broad-pointed pen. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > writing instrument > [noun] > pen > broad-pointed pen stub1829 J1885 stub-pen1891 J-pen1898 1891 Cent. Dict. Stub pen. 1897 Westm. Gaz. 13 Jan. 5/1 The first signature is ‘Julian Pauncefote,’ written with an extra broad-pointed steel stub pen. stub-rabbit n. dialect a rabbit that seeks shelter among stubs instead of going to ground. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Oryctolagus (rabbit) > defined by habitat parker1840 stub-rabbit1845 hedgehog1846 wood-rabbit1891 1845 Zoologist 3 903 There is a variety..called..in the northern parts of the same county [Herts.] the stub-rabbit. stub-short n. = stub-shot n. ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Stub-short..1. The unsawed portion of a plank where it is split from the bolt or log. 2. (Turning.) The portion by which an object to be turned is grasped or chucked. stub-shot n. (see quot. 1875). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > sawn > waste piece(s) left after sawing paling board?c1663 stump-shot1812 stub-shot1875 offcut1960 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Stub-shot. 1. The unsawed portion of a plank where it is split from the bolt or log. 2. (Turning.) The portion by which an object to be turned is grasped or chucked. stub-side n. the side of a swath which has the cut ends of the stems. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > crop as it falls cut > cut end of stub-side1733 stubs1764 1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xiv. 86 'Tis best to raise up the Ear-sides first, and let the Stub-side rest on the Ground in turning. stub station n. U.S. a railway station at which the tracks terminate. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > station > other types stopping station1840 way station1840 flag-station1852 by-station1864 transfer station1869 junction1876 stationette1891 station house1891 halt1910 stub station1916 ghost station1928 whistle-stop1934 parkway1972 1916 J. A. Droege Passenger Terminals v. 104 The head or stub station is an end-of-the-line station. 1916 J. A. Droege Passenger Terminals v. 104 Practically all the terminals in New York City are built on the stub station plan. 1929 Amer. Railway Engineering Assoc. Man. xiv. 960 The through and loop types of station are superior to the stub station from the standpoint of train operation. stub-switch n. U.S. (see quot. 1909). ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > track > points > types of spring point1757 catch point1873 stub-switch1885 trap-point1885 trailing points1889 1885 G. Mordecai Rep. Terminal Facilities 6 The tracks are of good material, laid with stub switches and railfrogs. 1903 W. M. Camp Notes Track Constr. I. 292 The stub switch, with its open joint in winter and tight joint in summer, with a loose head block to be tampered with every few days. 1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Stub switch, Railroading, a switch in which the track rails are cut off squarely at the toe and the switch rails are thrown to butt end to end with the lead rails. stub-tail n. (a) a partridge at a certain stage of growth; (b) see quot. 1867; also used of maize; (c) a short and thick or broad tail; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Perdix (partridge) > young stub-tail1686 flapper1747 yelper1802 cheeper1864 the world > food and drink > food > flour > [noun] > inferior flour garnela1752 ship-stuff1793 batch-flour1862 stub-tail1867 red dog1880 the world > animals > animal body > general parts > rump and tail > [noun] > tail > short erect tail > short and thick stub-tail1938 1686 R. Blome Gentlemans Recreation ii. 37/1 Larg Partridges called Stubtayls... There are several names or distinctions of Partridges; the first, when newly hatched, are called White~heads, the second Names are Chick-tayls, the third Stub-tayls. 1867 P. L. Simmonds Commerc. Dict. Trade Products (rev. ed.) Suppl. Stubtail, Stump~tail, names in North America for flour made out of damaged wheat and good wheat ground together. 1873 Spider & Fly iv. i. 19 This corn is the Illinois growth of 1857, and is called ‘stub-tail’ because about one-third of it is rotten. 1938 L. MacNeice Zoo 234 They [sc. bears] showed their stub-tails. 1973 Times 17 May 35/1 Compared with the 1100 it has a more streamlined bonnet curving down to a low radiator grille, and a stub tail somewhat reminiscent of the Hillman Avenger. stub-tenon n. (see quot. 1875). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > wooden structures or wooden parts of > means of fitting together > types of joint > projecting part of joint tenon14.. tenora1485 rabbet1678 dovetail1691 relish1703 teaze-tenon1703 coak1794 table1794 tusk tenon1825 tonguing1841 tongue1842 pin1847 cog1858 stub-tenon1875 cross-tongue1876 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Stub-tenon, a short tenon at the foot of an upright, such as the scantling or studding of a partition or a floor~bearer. 1910 J. Bartlett in Encycl. Brit. V. 387/2 A stub tenon or joggle (fig. 14) is used for fixing a post to a sill. stub-toed adj. of a shoe: having a broad toe. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > [adjective] > with specific type of toe picked1615 square-toe1706 square-toed1785 stub-toed1930 open-toe1938 peep-toe1939 peep-toed1953 chisel1961 1930 J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel 134 He'd..clatter up and down stairs making a tremendous racket with his stubtoed ironplated shoes. stub-tooth n. Mechanics (see quot. 1909). ΚΠ 1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Stub tooth, Mach., a short gear tooth of great strength, with a large angle of obliquity. stub track n. U.S. a railway track, usually at a terminus, connected to another at one end only; see also stub-end track above. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > track > at terminus stub-end track1875 stub track1896 1896 Engineering News XXXVI. 27/1 The empty car storage tracks on Mr. Derr's diagram are very long stub tracks, which are objectionable. 1921 Railway Engin. & Maintenance of Way Cycl. 348/1 A freight terminal is commonly considered an important freight station served by stub tracks. 1956 Railway Track & Structures Cycl. (ed. 8) 425/2 Bumping posts are obstructions placed at the end of stub tracks. stub-twist n. a material for fine gun-barrels, composed of a ribbon of stub-iron twisted into a spiral shape. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > production and development of arms > [noun] > manufacture of firearms and ammunition > materials metal1591 skelp1811 stub-twist1843 coil1859 gun-iron1881 1843 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. I. 221 The complex and ornamental figures for the barrels of fowling-pieces, described as ‘stub-twist, wire-twist, Damascus-twist.’ stub wing n. Aeronautics (see quot. 1956). ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > rotary wing aircraft > [noun] > parts of rotary wing aircraft > short wing on autogiros stub wing1931 society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > stabilizer > stabilizer on seaplane sponson1928 stub wing1931 stub1935 society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > plane or aerofoil > wing > part next to fuselage wing root1906 stub wing1931 1931 Flight 2 Jan. 16/2 The lower stub wings form part of the landing gear structure. 1956 W. A. Heflin U.S. Air Force Dict. 496/2 Stub wing,..1. A short wing, esp. as used on certain autogiros. 2. That part of a wing on certain airplanes that lies next to the fuselage, to which the rest of the wing, separately built, is attached... 3. Short for ‘stubwing stabilizer.’..Stubwing stabilizer, a hydro~stabilizer on a flying boat. 1958 Times Rev. Industry Aug. 39/2 The [Rotodyne] fixed stubwing..takes over the task of supporting the aircraft. stub-winged adj. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [adjective] > having specific type or position of wings multiplane1897 monoplane1907 all-wing1919 mid-wing1934 delta-winged1950 tilt-wing1953 stub-winged1957 wet wing1961 1957 Times Surv. Brit. Aviation Sept. 2/6 Bristol are sending the stub-winged twin-rotor Type 173. stub wire n. = sense 7e above. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > floriculture and flower arranging > [noun] > equipment beau-pot1766 bouquetier1786 flower-stand1838 spray1862 rose bowl1878 stem-glass1922 pinholder1946 stub1951 stub wire1960 oasis1961 1960 [see sense 7e]. 1963 [see sense 7e]. 1976 Eastern Evening News (Norwich) 22 Dec. 4/8 (advt.) Oasis (dry and wet). Dried flowers. Stub wires and a large selection of containers. Draft additions 1993 Aeronautics (a) A short projection from the hull of a flying boat, to aid lateral stability on the water, or from the fuselage of an aircraft, for carrying equipment, ordnance, etc.; a stub wing; (b) a short exhaust outlet on a piston-engined aircraft. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > stabilizer > stabilizer on seaplane sponson1928 stub wing1931 stub1935 society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > outlet for exhaust gases > short outlet on piston-engined aircraft stub1935 1935 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 39 823 A recent proposal for a large tailless flying boat having a pterodactyl wing plus stubs, a combination of two experimental features. 1935 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 39 826 With regard to the use of sponsons or stubs, he had understood Mr. Coombes to say that one could reckon on some aerodynamic lift from the stub. 1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 3 Oct. 21 We were sure she was not ‘blowing’ on any of the stubs. 1959 J. L. Nayler Dict. Aeronaut. Engin. 265 Stub,..Stub Wing, a short length of plane projecting from an aeroplane fuselage or a seaplane hull. 1969 Gloss. Aeronaut. & Astronaut. Terms (B.S.I.) v. 11 Stub, a projection from a hull to give lateral stability on the water. 1987 Air Internat. Apr. 203/1 For the first production Hurricanes, Hawker had developed exhaust stubs..but an alternative ejector-type stub developed by Rolls-Royce was found to be worth 2 mph (3,2 km/h) and was adopted instead. Draft additions 1993 Finance (originally U.S.). (a) An option entitling an investor who sells his holding in a limited company to its management during a leveraged buyout to purchase ordinary shares at a specified future date; (b) the small amount of devalued equity remaining to shareholders following such a buyout; its quoted price. Frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [noun] > block of > small tranchette1982 stub1984 stub equity1987 1984 Amer. Banker 9 Jan. 3/1 Dean Witter recommends that this stock, which it values only for the discounted present values of its dividend stream and its eventual $2 stub, should be sold and any proceeds of more than $12 a share looked upon as ‘found money’. 1987 N.Y. Times 7 Apr. d5/1 Analysts and money managers valued the equity portion of the offer—also called the ‘stub’—at between $6 and $10 a share. 1987 Observer 7 June 33/1 The shareholders..cash in on the juggling of company assets (with the inevitable replacement of equity with debt) and then stay on for the ride on an albeit debt-ridden ‘stub’ which continues to be traded on the stock market. 1989 Sunday Times 25 June d1/3 The value put on the stub is crucial. 1989 Daily Tel. 30 Oct. (Management Buyouts Suppl.) p. viii/8 It was hoped that institutional shareholders..might be more willing to accept offers from incumbent management if a stub element were included. Draft additions 1993 stub equity n. = sense Additions (b) above. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [noun] > block of > small tranchette1982 stub1984 stub equity1987 1987 Forbes 23 Mar. 173/3 Companies that were bought out through leveraged deals have provided some enormous benefits for investors in what the takeover types call stub equity, that 5% to 25% of the deal involving stock issues. 1989 Sunday Times 28 May d1/1 One option is for Warburg to produce some form of ‘stub equity’, enabling Smith's fans to participate in the leveraged takeover. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2022). stubadj. Brit. /stʌb/, U.S. /stəb/ Etymology: < stub n. rare. Of a person: Squat, stunted-looking. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [adjective] > and broad short shoulderedc1405 bunting1584 squaddy1593 chubby1611 truncheon1611 squat1630 squabbish1666 truss1674 squab1675 squad1675 stocky1676 punch1679 trunch1683 squat1688 stub1711 fodgel1724 thick-set1724 puddy1747 chunky1749 dumpy1750 squabby1754 knurly1758 clunch1776 trunchy1778 fubsy1780 punchy1780 humpty-dumpty1785 trunched1787 pudgy1788 fubby1790 runty1807 squattish1809 roly-poly1818 stumpy1822 hoddy-doddy1824 spuddya1825 hodmandod1825 stubby1831 podgy1832 fubsical1834 dumpty1847 fatling1847 stuggy1847 nuggety1856 cloddy1876 blocky1879 chumpy188. cobby1883 squidgy1891 stockish1913 pyknic1925 humpisha1935 1711 London Gaz. No. 4928/4 The person suspected..is a short stub Fellow. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022). stubv.¹ Brit. /stʌb/, U.S. /stəb/ Forms: Inflected stubbed /stʌbd/, stubbing. Also Middle English stobe, Middle English–1500s stubbe, 1600s stube, stubb. Etymology: < stub n. Compare Swedish stubba, Danish stubbe. 1. a. transitive. To dig up by the roots; to grub up (roots). Chiefly with up. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > extract [verb (transitive)] > root out or up louka1000 morec1325 roota1387 unroot?a1425 stubc1450 roota1500 rid?1529 root-walt?1530 subplant1547 supplant1549 root?1550 grub1558 eradicate1564 to stump up1599 deracinate1609 uproot1695 aberuncate1731 eracinate1739 rootle1795 disroot1800 piggle1847 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > reclaim [verb (transitive)] > clear land > remove roots stockc1440 stock1458 extirp1490 displanta1492 supplant1549 stub1555 grub1558 to stump up1599 averruncate1623 extirpate1651 stump1791 c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 26 Alle paryschenys þat hewyn doun violently, or stubbyn, pullyn, or schredyn, or croppyn, ony treen in cherche-ȝerde. 1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. vii. 160 In the forenoone thei plante and graffe, digge vp settes, stubbe vp rootes. 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 31^v Goe breake vp land, gett mattock in hand. Stub roote so tough, for breaking of plough. 1574 in J. J. Cartwright Chapters Hist. Yorks. (1872) 75 Wyth lyberty to take and stubbe the trees and bushes. a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1957) III. 286 If one give me a timber tree for my house, I know not whether the root be mine or no, whether I may stub it by that gift. 1639 tr. J. A. Comenius Porta Linguarum Reserata (new ed.) xlviii. §529 A woodmonger felleth down trees, and stubes them up by the roots. 1695 J. Miller Descr. New York (1843) 9 He..may..by stubbing up the trees and brushwood, have good arable land or pastures. 1709 J. Swift Baucis & Philemon 9 'Tis hard to be believ'd, How much the other Tree was griev'd; Grew Surly, Died, at Top was Stunted, So the next Parson Stubb'd, and burnt it. 1791 R. Mylne 2nd Rep. Navigation Thames 10 Some Thorn-Bushes should be stubbed out of the Bank. 1866 A. Trollope Belton Estate I. iii. 71 The roots want stubbing up horribly. 1888 A. Jessopp Coming of Friars v. 238 He was found to have stubbed up a hedge which had been the boundary of the land. b. figurative. Now rare. ΚΠ c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 77 He schal stubbyn þe vp, londe & roote, & cachyn þe out of þi dwellyng-place. c1571 E. Campion Two Bks. Hist. Ireland (1963) i. ix. 34 That theise strangers wold indevor either to stub out that unruly generacion or to nurture them. 1651 G. Firmin Serious Quest. sig. B This Opinion will stub up all the Ordinances. 1662 J. Sergeant Jesuits Reasons (1675) 128 Unless such Tenets be stubbed out of the heads..of your Preachers. 1876 F. W. Farrar In Days of Youth xviii. 172 Beware that there be not—hidden deep under the soil of your heart—any sins and tendencies,..any vanities or lusts, which you have not as it were stubbed up. †2. To dig out (gravel). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > earth-moving, etc. > [verb (transitive)] > dig (hole, etc.) > dig or break up (ground) delvec888 dig1382 gruba1400 stubc1450 cast1497 sheugh1513 to search upc1540 stock1802 c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 265 But now schal I telle ȝow of þe howe or a pek-ex wherwyth ȝe muste stubbe out þe grauel. 3. To cut down (a tree, etc.) close to the root. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [verb (transitive)] > cut tree near roots stub1594 grub-fell1787 1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. I^v His horse was trapt in the earthie stringes of tree rootes, which though their increase was stubbed downe to the grounde, yet were they not vtterly deaded. 1742 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Aug. xvi. 86 Turneps may be houghed ill, if the Hougher stubs them, as we call it, i.e. if he houghs them so shallow as to only cut off the Heads, and leave the Roots in the Ground. 1811 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. (new ed.) 88 Young trees must be planted, part of which may be preserved for timber, and the remainder left to be stubbed off for underwood. 4. To remove the stubs from (land). Also, to clear (land) of trees, furze, etc. by uprooting. Chiefly with up. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > reclaim [verb (transitive)] > clear land redeeOE ridlOE grubc1374 stub1464 clot1483 shrub1553 clear1634 cure1719 stump1796 spade1819 slash1821 underbrush1824 to clean up1839 underbush1886 screef1913 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > reclaim [verb (transitive)] ina1387 reclaim1440 improve1523 win1531 mitigate1601 reform1607 stuba1650 regain1652 redeem1671 reduce1726 to bring to1814 to bring in1860 to break in1891 green1967 1464 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 455 [He] schal stobe me klen serten kloses wethe in Powenses. 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 29 b Hee..pluckt downe Barnes and Store~houses, stubd vp Orchards and Vineyardes. a1650 G. Boate Irelands Nat. Hist. (1652) xi. 99 That land..produced nothing but moss, heath, and short low furze: which herbs are fired upon the ground, and the ground stubbed, before it be plowed the first time. 1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy V. vii. 44 We shall have a terrible piece of work of it in stubbing the ox-moor. 1773 Ann. Reg. 1772 75/2 Paterson stubbed up ten acres of furze or whin ground. 1847 C. G. Addison Treat. Law Contracts (1883) ii. i. 244 He must not convert arable land into pasture..or stub up a wood to make it pasture. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Northern Farmer: Old Style vii, in Enoch Arden, etc. 131 An' I 'a stubb'd Thornaby waäste. 1889 Harper's Mag. Feb. 424/1 A large fenced-in field, well stubbed. 5. To remove the stub-feathers from (a fowl). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > poultry-keeping > rear poultry [verb (transitive)] > remove beak or feathers dub1570 stump1821 stub1875 de-beak1937 1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. Stub, to pluck chicken clean after their feathers have been pulled off. 1901 Dundee Advertiser 3 May 7 The fowl is at once plucked and ‘stubbed,’..The plucking is done by men..and the stubbing, or the removal of the undeveloped feathers, by women. 6. To reduce to a stub or stump. †a. To wear down (a quill pen). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > writing instrument > [verb (transitive)] > wear down (quill pen) stub1577 1577 J. Grange Golden Aphroditis sig. Dij Yet wold their inke be dried vp, their paper spent, their pennes stubbed. 1589 T. Nashe Anat. Absurditie sig. Aiiii What should I spend my yncke, waste my paper, stub my penne, in painting forth theyr vgly imperfections. †b. To deprive of (a horn). In quot. 1658 figurative. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > loss > taking away > take away [verb (transitive)] > deprive (of) > deprive (a thing) stub1658 strip1675 1658 J. Harrington Prerogative Pop. Govt. i. xii. 128 A Dilemma,..being a kind of argument that should not be stubb'd of one horne, but have each of equall length and danger. c. To shorten and thicken by hammering. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > condition of being short and thick or broad > make short and thick [verb (transitive)] stub1869 society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > forge or shape > in specific way batterc1380 beat1483 peena1522 hammer1522 malleate1598 extenuate1599 upset1678 planish1688 to set down1703 foliate1704 raise1774 skelp1803 tilt1825 jump1851 cold-hammer1858 stub1869 upend1932 ding1939 coin1940 1869 Sandberg tr. Styffe Iron & Steel 11 The author ‘upset’ or stubbed the bars at the ends. 7. To cause (a horse) to be wounded with a stub. Also reflexive of the horse. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > cause injury or disease of horse [verb (transitive)] > stub or stake stub1686 the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > of horse: have disorder [verb (reflexive)] > stub or stake stub1686 stake1687 1686 London Gaz. No. 2126/4 Lost.., a brown bay Gelding,..the near Leg behind stubb'd with Leaping. 1702 London Gaz. No. 3850/4 Stolen or strayed.., a dun Nag.., was stub'd on the Fetlock Joint of one of the fore Legs. 1865 M. Lemon Loved at Last I. vi. 140 Pray keep on, sir, my horse has stubbed himself, I fancy. 1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. (at cited word) To stub a horse is to lame him by letting him tread on stubs of underwood in a cover. 8. ? To crush, pulverize (marl, etc. for spreading over land, road-material); to fill up the ruts in (a road) with crushed stones, etc. Also to stub in: to crush (road-metal) into the ruts. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > grinding or pounding > grind or pound [verb (transitive)] grindc1000 i-ponec1000 britOE poundOE stampc1200 to-pounec1290 bruisea1382 minisha1382 bray1382 to-grind1393 beatc1420 gratec1430 mull1440 pestle1483 hatter1508 pounce1519 contuse1552 pounder1570 undergrind1605 dispulverate1609 peal1611 comminute1626 atom1648 comminuate1666 porphyrize1747 stub1765 kibble1790 smush1825 crack1833 pun1888 micronize1968 society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > paving and road-building > pave or build roads [verb (transitive)] > fill in gaps in road stub1765 fascine1780 ballast1836 1765 Museum Rusticum 3 287 If with stone of the farmers, a load of thirty bushels will do three rods, which costs one shilling and a halfpenny stubbing and picking. 1795 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Essex 141 The blue and white chalky clay..should be stubbed and left exposed to the action of the air, sometime before it is carried out, and spread upon the land. 1800 Little Cornard (Suff.) Highway Acc. (MS.) P^d Rob^t. Sparrow for Stubbing the road from Parmers to Rowls pond, 0. 14. 5. 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 165 The stones..are..dropped into the ruts, far better than a man can stub them in. 9. a. to stub (one's) toe (see quot. 1848.) Also figurative. Formerly chiefly U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > impinge [verb (intransitive)] > against an obstacle with the foot > with the toe stump1828 to stub (one's) toe1848 1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (at cited word) ‘To stub one's toe’, is to strike it against anything in walking or running; an expression often used by boys and others who go barefoot. c1850 ‘Dow, Jr.’ in W. Jerdan Yankee Humour (1853) 58 When I stubbed my toes. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 114 You are rather liable to what Captain Eversfield graphically describes as ‘stub your toe’ against lava-like rock. 1906 A. Werner Natives Brit. Central Afr. vi. 140 The formation of a virulent ulcer every time a person stubbed a toe or barked a shin. 1957 Economist 19 Oct. 194/1 At a time when the Middle East has become more of a happy hunting ground for Russians seeking friends and influence than ever before, it is on Turkey that they are always stubbing their toe. 1967 Boston Sunday Herald 7 May (Show Guide) 17/2 The senator stubbed his toe just once, and Overbury has the goods on him. When the time comes to peddle them..knocking off Burden Day is easy. 1976 ‘J. Ross’ I know what it's like to Die xix. 126 It was a reputable organisation. At least, insofar as it hadn't stubbed its corporate toes on, or interfered with, anything under the supervision of the superintendent's own bailiwick. b. U.S. colloquial. intransitive. ‘To walk along striking the toes against obstructions; go heedlessly; as, the boy stubs along to school’ ( Funk's Stand. Dict.). Also transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > heedlessly striking toes stub1875 1875 C. B. Lewis Quad's Odds (ed. 2) 480 The writer will stub along through life with a heart full of joyfulness. 1878 B. F. Taylor Between Gates 241 An old whaler stubbing about estimated him [sc. a whale] at sixty barrels. 10. transitive. To cover with stubs. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > be or act as part of tree [verb (transitive)] > cover with stumps stub1878 1878 W. C. Smith Hilda 61 Last of a great pine forest that stubs the heath with its roots For miles. 11. intransitive. Of a tree: To send out branches from the ‘stub’ when cut down. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > be part of tree or woody plant [verb (intransitive)] > send out branches when cut down (of tree) stub1791 1791 Trans. Soc. Arts 9 20 The Spanish Chestnut..possesses a peculiar faculty of branching, provincially called stubbing, from the roots after being cut down. 12. transitive. To extinguish (a cigarette) by pressing the lighted end of the stub against a hard object. Frequently with out. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > use as material for smoking [verb (transitive)] > extinguish cigarette stump1922 butt1924 stub1927 to butt out1950 society > occupation and work > industry > earth-moving, etc. > [verb (transitive)] > dig (hole, etc.) > dig up (object) upgravea1340 digc1350 to dig upc1400 to dig outa1425 unearthc1450 holk1554 moil1581 sprittle1585 effodicate1599 moot1610 effode1657 to cast up1660 to rough out1834 exter1835 excavate1848 crow1853 stub1927 1927 Daily Express 28 Oct. 5 A new glass ash tray with cigarette rests has a glass stopper fitting in at the back which is used for stubbing one's smokes... On the stubber a Greek girl dancing, scarf in hand [is represented]. 1930 J. Cannan No Walls of Jasper 116 He stubbed out his cigarette and smiled at her. 1955 P. Larkin in Listener 8 Sept. 373/1 I lie Where Mr. Bleaney lay, and stub my fags On the same saucer-souvenir. 1962 J. Braine Life at Top xxvi. 277 I looked round for an ashtray and for the fifth time since nine o'clock stubbed out my cigarette on the floor. 1970 R. Lowell Notebk. 214 A hand prepared to stub out liberty. 1974 ‘E. Ferrars’ Hanged Man's House xv. 149 There was always something that you could do with a cigarette, light it, draw on it, tip ash off it, stub it out. 1978 S. Radley Death & Maiden xi. 109 She stubbed out her cigarette with sudden vigour. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † stubv.² Etymology: Compare stob v.¹, stab v. Obsolete. rare. transitive. To thrust (a weapon) into. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > cut of sharp weapon > cut or penetrate (of weapon) [verb (transitive)] > strike with pointed weapon > thrust a pointed weapon putc1275 shovec1275 rivec1330 stickc1390 stub1576 haft1582 uphilt1582 gar1587 embosom1590 emboss1590 flesh1590 imbrue1590 stabc1610 scour1613 1576 T. Bedingfield tr. G. Cardano Comforte (new ed.) 37 b When Iulius Cæsar..felte the daggers of diuers men stubbed into his body he [etc.]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.967adj.1711v.¹c1450v.²1576
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