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单词 stubber
释义 stubber|ˈstʌbə(r)|
Also 6 stoobber.
[f. stub v.1 + -er1.]
1. One who stubs, in senses of the verb.
1481–90Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 507 Item, payd to the stubber of Northffolk for xj. gret rotys stubbyng [etc.], v.s.1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 161 But if stake stoobbers will not let stakis stand Blame not the stake.1679Evelyn Sylva xxxiv. (ed. 3) 245 Two of the Stubbers or Labourers..that were employ'd to clear the Ground.1860All Year Round 28 Apr. 66/2 The drainer, the leveller, the stubber-up of rotten stumps.1908N. & Q. Ser. x. X. 38/1 Scores of the roots taken out were ‘crooked billets’—so called by the stubbers.
2. A contrivance against which a cigarette is stubbed out.
1927[see stub v.1 12].
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