Sc. Obs. Also 8 stibler. [Of obscure origin; for suggestions see Jamieson.] A licensed probationer who has not yet received a call to a settled ministerial charge.
1721. Ramsay, Morning Interview, 211. Not the long ’tending stibler, at his call;… E’er knew such raptures as this joyful swain.
1815. Scott, Guy M., xlvi. Ye sticket stibbler [addressed to Dominie Sampson].
1865. R. Paul, in B. Bell, Mem. (1872), 335. Mr. Burns … is away for six weeks, and only a set of young stibblers in his place.
