Stub end (Mach.), the enlarged end of a connecting rod, to which the
strap is fastened. -- Stub iron, iron made from stub nails, or old
horseshoe nails, -- used in making gun barrels. -- Stub mortise
(Carp.), a mortise passing only partly through the timber in which it
is formed. -- Stub nail, an old horseshoe nail; a nail broken off;
also, a short, thick nail. -- Stub short, or Stub shot (Lumber Manuf.),
the part of the end of a sawn log or plank which is beyond the place
where the saw kerf ends, and which retains the plank in connection with
the log, until it is split off. -- Stub twist, material for a gun
barrel, made of a spirally welded ribbon of steel and stub iron
combined.
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.