give it a stab

:  to make a present of

:  to grant or bestow by formal action

:  to accord or yield to another

:  capacity or tendency to yield to force or strain :  flexibility

:  the ability of a material to bend or stretch

:  a wound produced by a pointed object or weapon

:  a thrust of a pointed weapon

:  a jerky thrust

:  to wound or pierce by the thrust of a pointed object or weapon

:  thrust, drive

:  to thrust or give a wound with or as if with a pointed weapon