DRUB

cream, bat, clobber, drub, thrash, lick

(verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight; “We licked the other team on Sunday!”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Noun

drub (usually uncountable, plural drubs)

(dialectal, Northern England) carbonaceous shale; small coal; slate, dross, or rubbish in coal.

Etymology 2

Verb

drub (third-person singular simple present drubs, present participle drubbing, simple past and past participle drubbed) (transitive)

To beat (someone or something) with a stick.

To defeat someone soundly; to annihilate or crush.

To forcefully teach something.

To criticize harshly; to excoriate.

Anagrams

• BrdU, Burd, brud, burd

Source: Wiktionary


Drub, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Drubbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Drubbing.] Etym: [Cf. Prov. E. drab to beat, Icel. & Sw. drabba to hit, beat, Dan. dræbe to slay, and perh. OE. drepen to strike, kill, AS. drepan to strike, G. & D. freffen to hit, touch, Icel. drepa to strike, kill.]

Definition: To beat with a stick; to thrash; to cudgel. Soundly Drubbed with a good honest cudgel. L'Estrange.

Drub, n.

Definition: A blow with a cudgel; a thump. Addison.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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