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stabs

n. (plural of stab English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: stab)

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stabs (sometimes written STABS) is a debugging data format for storing information about computer programs for use by symbolic and source-level debuggers. (The information is stored in symbol table entries; hence the name "stabs".) It "was apparently invented by Peter Kessler at the University of California, Berkeley" for use with a Pascal compiler.

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With my eyes again accustomed to the normal Earthlight in the valley, I could see the stabs of electronic beams, the Martian paralyzing rays and heat beams.

The laying of the rails was done under cover of occasional stabs from the electronic projector.

I expect you will remember that Lucy Ashton stabs the bridegroom who has been forced upon her on their wedding night.

Sir Herbert Whitall comes down and catches them, and one of them stabs him.