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Stubbing

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.

    What stubbing, plowing, digging, and harrowing is to a piece of land.
    --Berkley.

  2. To remove stubs from; as, to stub land.

  3. To strike as the toes, against a stub, stone, or other fixed object. [U. S.]

Wiktionary
stubbing

n. The act by which something is stubbed. vb. (present participle of stub English)

WordNet
stub
  1. n. 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]

  6. [also: stubbing, stubbed]

stub
  1. v. strike against an object; "She stubbed her one's toe in the dark and now it's broken" [syn: scrape, skin, abrade]

  2. [also: stubbing, stubbed]

stubbing

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Usage examples of "stubbing".

It was so ironic to be protected by the same jundies who an hour ago had been stubbing out their cigarettes on our necks.

Not bothering to test the door set into the garden wall, he threw his boots over the top into the lane beyond and, quick as a rat up a drainpipe, scrambled after them, stubbing his toe badly in the process, pausing only long enough on the other side to retrieve his boots before making good his escape down the lane and into the Kings Road beyond.

It was so ironic to be protected by the same jundies who an hour ago had been stubbing out their cigarettes on our necks.

He flung the torn shirt away and ran after her, slithering in the thick, clagging mud, stubbing his toes on fragments of rock and torn-up roots.

He touched up some female in the pictures and she gave him a different sort of thrill from what he expected by stubbing her fag out on his hand.

The stars overhead had begun to pale with false dawn, and Tapek was in a sore mood from stubbing his toes on the cobbles.

Thestars overhead had begun to pale with false dawn, andTapek was in a sore mood from stubbing his toes on thecobbles.

Now the way I do it is: I say the sentence in my head until nothing sticks out, there are no “elbows,” there are no stubbings of toe.