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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 (gcide)

Rub \Rub\, n. [Cf. W. rhwb. See Rub, v,t,]
1. The act of rubbing; friction.
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2. That which rubs; that which tends to hinder or obstruct
motion or progress; hindrance; obstruction, an impediment;
especially, a difficulty or obstruction hard to overcome;
a pinch.
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Every rub is smoothed on our way. --Shak.
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To sleep, perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub.
--Shak.
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Upon this rub, the English ambassadors thought fit
to demur. --Hayward.
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One knows not, certainly, what other rubs might have
been ordained for us by a wise Providence. --W.
Besant.
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3. Inequality of surface, as of the ground in the game of
bowls; unevenness. --Shak.
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4. Something grating to the feelings; sarcasm; joke; as, a
hard rub.
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5. Imperfection; failing; fault. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
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6. A chance. [Obs.]
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Flight shall leave no Greek a rub. --Chapman.
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7. A stone, commonly flat, used to sharpen cutting tools; a
whetstone; -- called also {rubstone}.
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{Rub iron}, an iron guard on a wagon body, against which a
wheel rubs when cramped too much.

{Rub of the green} (Golf), anything happening to a ball in
motion, such as its being deflected or stopped by any
agency outside the match, or by the fore caddie.
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Rubstone \Rub"stone`\, n.
A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub.
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