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Drub  v. t.  (past & past part. drubbed; pres. part. drubbing)  To beat with a stick; to thrash; to cudgel. "Soundly Drubbed with a good honest cudgel."





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"Drub" Quotes from Famous Books



... was shifted to right tackle the following afternoon and a chance for further trouble was averted. The varsity was not quite as successful as on the previous day and it took a hard fight to drub the seconds in ...
— Over the Line • Harold M. Sherman
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... of Sardinia. But that war was brought about neither by French ambition nor by Sardinian desire for territorial aggrandizement. That it occurred in 1859 was undoubtedly owing to the action of France, which country merely chose its own time to drub its old foe; but the point at issue was, whether Austrian or Sardinian ideas should predominate in the government of Italy. Austria's purpose never could be accomplished so long as a constitutional polity existed in the best, because the best governed and ...
— Atlantic Monthly Volume 7, No. 39, January, 1861 • Various
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... thou devil," said the Friar Gonsol from afar off, "I adjure thee give me that booke else I will take thee by thy horns and hoofs and drub thy ribs together!" ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) • Various
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Words linked to "Drub" :   vanquish, thresh, clobber, bat, flail, thrash, shell, crush, beat out, cream


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