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stubbing, vbl. n.|ˈstʌbɪŋ|
Also 5 stobenge, 8 pl. stubbens.
[f. stub v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. stub in various senses.
1445tr. Claudianus in Anglia XXVIII. 277 Loondys which were vntilied..daies right many beforne [he] after his stubbyng staryth [? read storyth: L. restituit]. 1464Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.) 455 He schal haue fore the stobenge of them..xxvi. viii d. 1574in J. J. Cartwright Chapters Hist. Yorks. (1872) 75 The fencyng, stubbyng and dressyng of the ground. 1577Grange Golden Aphrod. Ep. Ded. A iij b, It seemeth the nebbe of my penne is long, and that I lesse do feare the stubbing therof. 1607Markham Cavel. iii. 6 In woody..grounds where a horse can neither conveniently make foorth his way, nor can tread without danger of stubbing. 1732Berkeley Minute Philos. I. 6 The mind of Man may be fitly compared to a piece of Land. What stubbing, plowing, digging and harrowing is to the one, that thinking..is to the other. 1770–4A. Hunter Georg. Ess. (1804) VI. 457 The tree itself possesses a peculiar faculty of branching provincially called stubbing. 1861L. L. Noble Icebergs 312 An unlucky stubbing of my naked toes. 1887J. A. Phillips & Bauerman Elem. Metall. (ed. 2) 604 A few buckets of water are thrown into the hearth, in order..to cool it previous to the clearing or stubbing-out necessary before commencing another shift.
b. attrib.
1567Richmond Wills (Surtees) 211 In the stubbing close one stake of hay. 1832Min. Evid. Comm. Factories Bill 24 The cording and stubbing machinery. |