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dub

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1. dub - Noun

2. dub - Verb

3. Dub - Proper noun

Meaning

To confer knighthood upon; as, the king dubbed his son Henry a knight.

To invest with any dignity or new character; to entitle; to call.

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

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

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

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

A blow.

A pool or puddle.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The confusion of mind you dub honor is a disease. Lois McMaster Bujold

I decided to dub the room with the good chairs my lutery. Or perhaps my performatory. I would need a while to come up with something suitably pretentious. Patrick Rothfuss

An audience is so important. I would never have had the guts to dub in that big a laugh. Desi Arnaz

Dub and reggae... I play that a lot around the house. Gavin Rossdale

I wished to dub as Masters: Love, Truth, Serenity. They'd feed and house and teach me with total sovereignty. Vanna Bonta

There are two kinds of people in the world, whom we might dub the jobholders and the enthusiasts. George Sarton

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