Stoach. To plant potatoes with a 'stoacher.' In some counties stoach=poach, to trample into holes.—N.W. (Clyffe Pypard, &c.)
Stoacher. 'A tater stoacher,' a thick stake, with projecting notch on which the foot is placed to drive the sharpened point into the ground. The potatoes are dropped into the holes so made.—N.W.
Stobball-play. An old game, played with a withy-staff and a small ball, stuffed full of quills, said by Aubrey (Nat. Hist. Wilts, p. 117, ed. Brit.) to be peculiar to North Wilts, North Gloucester, and the neighbourhood of Bath; but probably a form of stool-ball (H.Wr.).—N.W., obsolete.
'Illegal games ... mentioned are ... hand-ball, foot-ball, and stave-ball or "stobball"; (pilum manualem, pedalem, sive baculinam), "nine-holes" and "kittles."'—On the Self-government of Small Manorial Communities, as exemplified in the Manor of Castle Combe.—Wilts Arch. Mag. vol. iii. p. 156.
Stodge. (1) n. Substantial food.—N.W. (2) v. To stuff gluttonously. Stodged, quite unable to cram down another morsel.—N.W.
Stodgy. adj. Of food, causing a feeling of repletion.—N.W.
Stogged. Stuck in the mud, bogged (S.).—N. & S.W.
Stoggy. Wet and sticky; used of ground that 'stogs' you, or in which you get 'stogged.'—N.W.
Stomachy. adj. Unbending (S.). Obstinate, headstrong, self-willed.—N. & S.W.