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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stubbed \Stub"bed\, a.
     1. Reduced to a stub; short and thick, like something
        truncated; blunt; obtuse.
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     2. Abounding in stubs; stubby.


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              A bit of stubbed ground, once a wood. --R. Browning.
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     3. Not nice or delicate; hardy; rugged. "Stubbed, vulgar
        constitutions." --Berkley.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stub \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.
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              What stubbing, plowing, digging, and harrowing is to
              a piece of land.                      --Berkley.
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     2. To remove stubs from; as, to stub land.
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     3. To strike as the toes, against a stub, stone, or other
        fixed object. [U. S.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  stubbed
       See {stub}

















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