dub
Speech parts
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.
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The confusion of mind you dub honor is a disease.
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.
An audience is so important. I would never have had the guts to dub in that big a laugh.
Dub and reggae... I play that a lot around the house.
I wished to dub as Masters: Love, Truth, Serenity. They'd feed and house and teach me with total sovereignty.
There are two kinds of people in the world, whom we might dub the jobholders and the enthusiasts.