dub
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English dubben, from Old English dubbian (“to knight by striking with a sword, dub”) from Old French adober (“to equip with arms; adorn”) (also 11th century, Modern French adouber), both from Proto-West Germanic *dubbōn, from Proto-Germanic *dub- (“to hit, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“plug, peg, wedge”).
Cognate with Icelandic dubba (in dubba til riddara). Compare also drub for an English reflex of the Germanic word.
Inflected forms:
form: dubs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dubbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dubbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dubbed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dubs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword, the accolade.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: You promiſt Knighthood to our forward ſonne, / Vnſheath your ſword, and dub him preſently.
It occurred to him that he had not been dubbed a knight, and that according to the law of chivalry he neither could nor ought to bear arms against any knight; […].
gloss: To name, to entitle, to call.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: They tripped along the murky aisles with the rest of the company, visiting the familiar wonders of the cave—wonders dubbed with rather over-descriptive names, such as “The Drawing-Room,” “The Cathedral,” Aladdin’s Palace,” and so on.
As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “near-aissance.”
Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.
Stephen reigned from 1135-1154, that nasty period of our history dubbed 'The Anarchy', when forces loyal to Stephen contested the throne with those of Henry I's daughter Matilda, who by rights should have been queen. Stephen, her cousin, plonked his own posterior on the throne.
gloss: To deem.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A man of wealth is dubbed a man of worth.
gloss: To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.
pos: verb
examples: His diadem was dropped down / Dubbed with stones.
gloss: To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab.
pos: verb
examples: to dub a stick of timber smooth
gloss: To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab.
pos: verb
examples: For dressing or dubbing cloths, either wet or dry, otherwise than by green cards and pickards
gloss: To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab.
pos: verb
examples: 1852-1866, Charles Tomlinson, Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures
When the skin is thoroughly cleansed, and while yet in its wet and distended state, the process of stuffing, or dubbing (probably a corruption of daubing), is performed. Both sides of the skin, but chiefly the flesh side, are smeared or daubed with a mixture of cod-oil and tallow
gloss: To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab.
pos: verb
examples: if you can dub a Fly of the exact colour of the Natural Fly, Fish at that instant take, it's sufficient
gloss: To prepare (a gamecock) for fighting, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.
pos: verb
gloss: A blow, thrust, or poke.
pos: noun
tags: rare
examples: And kettle-drums, whose sullen dub
Sounds like the hooping of a tub
gloss: A poorly executed shot.
pos: noun
Derived words: dubbable
undub
dubber
dub out
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