kubb.
a certain small-diameter of timber, often from spruce or birch, usually about 3.1 m long, with lower quality requirements than standard sawlogs
Meaning & usage
a certain small-diameter of timber, often from spruce or birch, usually about 3.1 m long, with lower quality requirements than standard sawlogs
a wooden block with the grain running vertically (cut from above timber)
a lawn game in which two teams throw batons to knock over each other's wooden blocks, aiming to topple all the opponents' blocks and then the king in the centre
synonym of plommonstop (“bowler hat”)
log or flat-bottomed boat
Where this word comes from
From Old Norse kubbi, kobbi, to Proto-Germanic *kubb-. Probably related to kavel, kavle, to Proto-Germanic *kablaz (“round piece of wood; stick, rod”), to Proto-Indo-European *ǵebʰ- (“branch”) to a word family either referencing wood or shape (compare Swedish vedgubbe (“piece of firewood”), dynamitgubbe (“stick of dynamite”)). Potentially related to Proto-Germanic *kuppaz (“hilltop, knoll”). First attested in 1651.
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