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noun

Dub n. A blow. (R.)

Dub n. A pool or puddle. (Prov. Eng.)

Dubb n. (Written also dhubb, and dub) (Zool.) The Syrian bear. See under Bear.

verb

Dub v. t. (past & past part. dubbed; pres. part. dubbing)

1.

To confer knighthood upon; as, the king dubbed his son Henry a knight. Note: The conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with the sword.

2.

To invest with any dignity or new character; to entitle; to call. "A man of wealth is dubbed a man of worth."

3.

To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn. (Obs.) "His diadem was dropped down Dubbed with stones."

4.

To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab; as:

(a)

To dress with an adz; as, to dub a stick of timber smooth.

(b)

To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.

(c)

To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of cyrrying it.

(d)

To prepare for fighting, as a gamecock, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.

To dub a fly, to dress a fishing fly. (Prov. Eng.)

To dub out (Plastering), to fill out, as an uneven surface, to a plane, or to carry out a series of small projections.

Dub v. t.

1.

To add sound to an existing recording, audio or video; often used with in. The sound may be of any type or of any duration.

2.

To mix together two or more sound or video recordings to produce a composite recording.

Dub v. i. To make a noise by brisk drumbeats. "Now the drum dubs."

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Etymology of 'Dub'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dub" Quotes from Famous Books

... none may dub thee tactless dund'rhead, Confine thy pen to light chit-chat, And rattle on as might a letter! For ninety-nine of every hundred Hate learning and what's more than that, The ...

— Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight • Mathew Joseph Holt

... has in life, and how your dull ass will not mend his pace with beating. But in this state of mummy and melancholy survival of itself, when the hollow skin reverberates to the drummer's wrist, and each dub- a-dub goes direct to a man's heart, and puts madness there, and that disposition of the pulses which we, in our big way of talking, nickname Heroism:- is there not something in the nature of a revenge upon the donkey's persecutors? ...

— An Inland Voyage • Robert Louis Stevenson

... proposition, idea, or 'suggestion,' which is generally their heart's desire abstracted and refined, is defended by them with arguments sought out after the event. They are all advocates who do not wish to be regarded as such, generally astute defenders, also, of their prejudices, which they dub 'truths'—and very far from having the conscience which bravely admits this to itself; very far from having the good taste or the courage which goes so far as to let this be understood, perhaps to warn friend or foe, or in cheerful confidence and self-ridicule.... It ...

— A Preface to Politics • Walter Lippmann

... might be worth reading; and this she laid aside. Of the remaining five she correctly guessed the contents of four. Of the fifth she remarked that it would be from a poor feckless dub with a large family who had owed her three hundred dollars for nine years. She said it would tell a new hard-luck tale for non-payment of a note now due for the eighth time. Here she was wrong. The letter inclosed a perfectly ...

— Ma Pettengill • Harry Leon Wilson

... fiends that I confess a qualm of fear surged over me for a second or two; for I saw at once that, unlike my captors, these ruffians were not endeavouring merely to frighten me, but were in deadly earnest. Not that I feared death; no man who ever knew me could dub me coward. In the heat of battle, or under most ordinary circumstances I can face death—ay, and have faced it a hundred times—without a tremor; but to be triced up, helpless, and to have one's strength sapped and one's life slowly drained away by a long drawn-out succession of ...

— A Middy of the King - A Romance of the Old British Navy • Harry Collingwood

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