STUT

also STOOTT, STUTT, STUTTE

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Noun:  Perhaps from Dutch stut or a dialect variant of stud (a post, prop)
Verb 1 & 2: Middle English stutten, from Teutonic root stut-, ablaut-var. of *staut- as in Middle Low German stôten, Old High German stôȥen 
(modern German stossen) to knock, strike against, collide
Verb 3:  from stut (n.)
Verb 4: early Middle English stutten (ü), a. Old Norse stytta = Old English styntan (to cut short, cease, stop)

1388 - The Holy Bible, made from the Latin Vulgate by John Wycliffe and his followers;
see below From: The Holy Bible, 
Containing the Old and New Testaments
Made from the Latin Vulgate by John Wycliffe and his followers
Edited by the Rev. Josiah Forshall, and Sir Frederic Madden
Volume III, 1850
Isaiah
P. 280

From: Ben Jonson's Dramen 
in Neudruck Herausgegeben Nach, 
der Folio 1616, 
von W. Bang, 1905
Poetaster, Act IIII Scene V
P. 320