Meanings of little stub in English

All I had when I went up was a little stub candle.

It was a little stub of a thing, but functional.

He and Mann had developed the Canadian Northern out of a little stub line in Dauphin, Manitoba.

By and by when he looked there was nothing left but a little stub which he couldn't even wriggle.

She was busy figuring on a little piece of paper, moistening her little stub of a pencil, every other second, with her tongue.

They were shuffling their way along the little stub of the street, towards the glass dome, down through deserted floors in an interstitial burrow.

Even when I had her legs over my shoulders, the little stub was like a hook and that secured her to me, no prob.

The little stub receipt books had been made to order for him and not only he but every person in his employ carried one everywhere.

I suppose the Teddy bear was glad too, but of course she could not even wag her little stub of a tail to show it.

Most of his tail was missing, but what little stub he possessed wasn't wagging, and he stood with his weight balanced on all four legs.

Her face is so flat with that high bulging forehead and little stub of a nose, and what a strange boney knob beneath her mouth.

Horrible things, aren't they?-sucha nuisance remembering to fill out those little stubs.

Tiny little stubs, she says.

"Okay, okay." Frankie started the car and backed down the little stub of driveway.