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Stub   /stəb/   Listen
Stub

noun
1.
A short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost.
2.
A small piece.  Synonym: nub.  "A stub of a pencil"
3.
A torn part of a ticket returned to the holder as a receipt.  Synonym: ticket stub.
4.
The part of a check that is retained as a record.  Synonyms: check stub, counterfoil.
5.
The small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking).  Synonym: butt.
verb
(past & past part. stubbed; pres. part. stubbing)
1.
Pull up (weeds) by their roots.
2.
Extinguish by crushing.
3.
Clear of weeds by uprooting them.
4.
Strike (one's toe) accidentally against an object.



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"Stub" Quotes from Famous Books



... Robin Red-Breast. One is inclined to ask with suspicion, "Is naming a lost art?" Any new flower discovered these days, every clever invention in the realm of machinery, is forthwith saddled with an impossible name. If it had not been easy to clip the term "automobile" down to the working stub "auto," the machine would never have run our streets. Again, the decimal system is conceded to be far ahead of the asinine "five and one-half yards make one rod, pole or perch"; the only reason why the commonsense ...
— The New North • Agnes Deans Cameron
... turned her head, and into her pretty eyes there crept a look which was almost of disquiet. The man's dark head and bearded face were bent over the sheet of paper upon which he was scratching with a stub of pencil. There was a small heap of paper money beside him. There was also a largish glass of raw rye whisky, from which he frequently drank. It was the sight of this latter that caused the girl's ...
— The Heart of Unaga • Ridgwell Cullum
... agreeably at the bewildered Mr. Porter, and, extracting a paper packet of cigarettes from her pocket, lit a fresh one at the stub of ...
— Deep Waters, The Entire Collection • W.W. Jacobs
... pocket he drew the stub of a lead pencil and the note- book in which he had written his will and the record of his betrayal. He added the story of his wanderings since leaving Chuckwalla ...
— The Long Chance • Peter B. Kyne
... by the stub of a lead pencil, but it was not until he had parted with his most cherished pocket possessions that he was at last allowed to place a gentle finger on the ...
— Miss Minerva and William Green Hill • Frances Boyd Calhoun


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