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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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"Dub" Quotes from Famous Books

... ghost of the Zhack flitted by in a trance; And the Squidjum hid under a tub As he heard the loud hooves of the Hooken advance With a rub-a-dub-dub-a-dub dub! And the Crankadox cried as he laid down and died, "My fate there is none to bewail!" While the Queen of the Wunks drifted over the tide With a long piece ...

— Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) • Bill Nye

... and then you went 'way back and set down,' as the saying is. But it ain't the money. You've got too much of that, anyway, Lord knows. It's this everlasting hullabaloo and the drink that goes with it, and the general trifling sort of a dub it makes out of a young fellow. It's a pity you ain't my son; that's all I got to say. I want to see you again along in September after I get back from San Francisco; I'm going to try to get you interested in some business. That'd be good ...

— The Spenders - A Tale of the Third Generation • Harry Leon Wilson

... little or nothing: then what does he do but dresses out his board, to give them the best appearance he can, and toddles into the streets, touting{5} for a good customer. The first genteel bit of flash he meets that he thinks will dub up the possibles,{6} he dashes down the board, breaks all the broken heads, and appeals in a pitiful way for remuneration for his loss; so that nine times out of ten he gets some Johnny-raw or other to stump up ...

— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan

... have a set, Ralph," said Ross promptly. "I hate to feel like a dub and not know about the clouds. It's like not knowing any ...

— The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men • Francis William Rolt-Wheeler

... drawn a fresh horse from the remounts we are in charge of; my last gee-gee I called "Barkis," because he was willing, this brute I shall have to dub "Smith," ...

— A Yeoman's Letters - Third Edition • P. T. Ross

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