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Stub, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stubbed p. pr. & vb. n. Stubbing.]
1. To grub up by the roots; to extirpate; as, to stub up edible roots.
What stubbing, plowing, digging, and harrowing is to a piece of land. --Berkley.
2. To remove stubs from; as, to stub land.
3. To strike as the toes, against a stub, stone, or other fixed object. [U. S.]
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Stub·bed a.
1. Reduced to a stub; short and thick, like something truncated; blunt; obtuse.
2. Abounding in stubs; stubby.
A bit of stubbed ground, once a wood. --R. Browning.
3. Not nice or delicate; hardy; rugged. “Stubbed, vulgar constitutions.”
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stub
n 1: a short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is
lost
2: a small piece; "a nub of coal"; "a stub of a pencil" [syn: nub]
3: a torn part of a ticket returned to the holder as a receipt
[syn: ticket stub]
4: the part of a check that is retained as a record [syn: check
stub, counterfoil]
5: the small unused part of something (especially the end of a
cigarette that is left after smoking) [syn: butt]
v : strike against an object; "She stubbed her one's toe in the
dark and now it's broken" [syn: scrape, skin, abrade]
[also: stubbing, stubbed]