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Stob, v.² Also: stobb, stobe. P.t. stoibbit. [Stob n.² Also in the later Sc. and 19th c. Yorks. dial.]

1. tr. To mark out ((an extent of) ground) with stakes, in order to demonstrate the boundaries between two or more persons' properties, to mark where building or repair work is to be carried out, or as an aid to measurement. 1520 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 57.
This inquest passit to ane tenement of Simoun Farle … and the said tenement … hes stobit be the groand wod and all rycht merkis and dividit, as his chartour proportis 1535–6 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 163.
The said David hes lost halff ane fut utoucht the ground val stane and hes stobbit it all befoir all the forsaidis inquisitouris 1536 Prot. Bk. M. Fleming 103a.
The sayd place extendand to sewynten ell of lyntht lyk as thai ar now merchyt & stobbyt be Pate Wrycht 1536 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 174 (see Stob n.² 2 b (a)). 1550 Glasgow Prot. I 18.
The haile west syide … with twa howssis on the eist syide of the clois nixt adjacent to the yairde as thai are now stobbit 1588 Glasgow B. Rec. I 121.
To stob and merche the samyn [enclosed common] that the quantitie may be knawin 1596 Glasgow Chart. II App. 568 (see Stob n.² 2 b (a)). 1598–9 Glasgow B. Rec. I 191.
To visey and stob the place of the Greyn quhair the calsaye salbe maid and biggitt 1607 Glasgow Prot. X 131 (see Stob n.² 2 b (a)). 1635 Glasgow Chart. I ii 357.
And that as the samynn is alreddie stobit, meithit and merchit, with all our consentis 1676 Glasgow B. Rec. III 225.
To sie the march stones sett in about the said maillings as the samyne was formerlie stobbed 1689–90 Glasgow B. Rec. III 519 (see Stob n.² 2 b (a)). 1695 Glasgow B. Rec. IV 153.
And in caise any moe persons desyre to few that he commune with them and stobb and mark out the ground 1718 Glasgow B. Rec. IV 12.
Which ground for the said church and churchyeard thereof being now stobbed and market

2. intr. To stob and stake: a. To mark out or measure ground with stakes. b. In a burgh: ? To mark out a plot of land for oneself, as an earnest of one's intention to settle in the burgh. (Cf. Stob n.² 2 c.)(1) 1529 Dundee B. Laws 546.
Strekand north to the heid dyk as we haf stobbit and stakit at this tyme(2) 1580–1 Perth Guildry 401 (19 Jan.).
Cautioun … in respect he interet burges and gild for walking and warding scatting lotting and to stobe and staik as nychtbouris dois 1584 Glasgow Burgesses 14.
[John Quhitfurd made burgess and freeman gratis] provided he stob and staik within ȝeir and day conform to the act of burghs 1632 Banff Ann. I 68.
Ye shall stob and staik, big and belte within this burgh according to your power

3. tr. To invest with (sharp) stakes. 1535 Stewart 49949.
Robert the Bruce … Trynchis gart mak and pottis that war deip Into the erd with greit laubour and cuir, … And stoibbit thame with ryce quhen that wes done, And couerit syne the grene scheretis abone

4. p.p. Pointed, tipped (with metal). 15.. Sym & Bruder 14.
Twa bewis of the birk Weill stobbit with steill