Also 6 stoobber. [f. STUB v.1 + -ER1.] One who stubs, in senses of the verb.
1481–90. Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.), 507. Item, payd to the stubber of Northffolk for xj. gret rotys stubbyng [etc.], v.s.
1562. J. Heywood, Prov. & Epigr. (1867), 161. But if stake stoobbers will not let stakis stand Blame not the stake.
1679. Evelyn, Sylva, xxxiv. (ed. 3), 245. Two of the Stubbers or Labourers … that were employ’d to clear the Ground.
1860. All Year Round, 28 April, 66/2. The drainer, the leveller, the stubber-up of rotten stumps.
1908. N. & Q., Ser. X. X. 38/1. Scores of the roots taken out were ‘crooked billets’—so called by the stubbers.
