DUB

To confer knight.

To invest with any dignity or new character; to entitle; to call. A man of wealth is dubbed a man of worth. Pope.

To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn. [Obs.] His diadem was dropped down Dubbed with stones. Morte d'Arthure.

To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab; as: (a) To dress with an adz; as, to dub a stick of timber smooth.

To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap. Halliwell.

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

To prepare for fighting, as a gamecock, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles. To dub a fly, to dress a fishing fly. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. -- To dub out (Plastering), to fill out, as an uneven surface, to a plane, or to carry out a series of small projections.

To make a noise by brisk drumbeats. "Now the drum dubs." Beau. & Fl.

A blow. [R.] Hudibras.

A pool or puddle. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.