stob noun 3verb 3forms 3 noun3 •A small post for supporting paling. •(dialect, Scotland) A stick, twig or peg, especially in roofing or matting.He climbed from the skiff and tied up at a stob and labored up the thick grassless bank toward the arches where the bridge went to earth. — 1979 •A wedge in coal-mining. verb3 •(dialect, Scotland) To stab. •(dialect, Scotland) To roof with stob-thatch. •(dialect, Scotland) To make mats with a stob tool. formsstobbed · stobbing · stobs