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2. Verb. (third-person singular of stub) ¹

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Definition of Stubs

1. stub [v] - See also: stub

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stubs

Literary usage of Stubs

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Machinists' Handbook and Dictionary of Shop Terms: A Reference Book by Fred Herbert Colvin, Frank Arthur Stanley (1914)
"Rod sizes by this gage should not be confused with stubs' Steel Wire Gage sizes. The difference between the sizes of corresponding numbers in the two gages ..."

2. American Machinists' Handbook and Dictionary of Shop Terms: A Reference Book by Fred Herbert Colvin, Frank Arthur Stanley (1908)
"Rod sizes by this gage should not be confused with stubs' Steel Wire Gage sizes. The difference between the sizes of corresponding numbers in the two gages ..."

3. American Machinists' Handbook and Dictionary of Shop Terms: A Reference Book by Fred Herbert Colvin, Frank Arthur Stanley (1909)
"TWIST DRILL AND STEEL WIRE GAGE SIZES stubs' GAGES IN using stubs' Gages, the difference between the stubs Iron Wire Gage and the stubs Steel Wire Gage ..."

4. Archaeologia Cantiana by Kent Archaeological Society (1889)
"1605 Elizabeth stubs the dafter of Hendry stubs baptized the 5 of may 1605. „ Clement stubs the sonne of Tobi stubs baptized yc 30 of nouember 1(105. ..."

5. The Organization and Management of Business Corporations by Walter Collins Clephane (1913)
"stubs. Stock certificates are usually printed in bound books similar to bank check books, containing stubs upon which certam useful information with regard ..."

6. Telephone Construction, Methods and Cost by Clarence Mayer, John Clifford Slippy (1908)
"COST OF GUYING AND SETTING SELF-SUSTAINING stubs Teaming and Labor in Hauling. ... stubs- Sand or gravel..$0.88 Sand and water. 0.83 Black soil 0.77 Black ..."

7. The Bagford Ballads: Illustrating The Last Years of the Stuarts by John Bagford, Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth (1878)
"The attack on stubs lay more with Defoe than with ... Philip stubs was Archdeacon of St. Albans, and in 1702 had published a sermon entitled " For God, ..."

8. Annual Reportby Michigan Board of State Auditors by Michigan Board of State Auditors (1906)
"... 14x17, full law sheep; first quire 3 25 flat opener, machine sewed on double stubs; extra per quire 15 per each quire additional to first quire in books ..."

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