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strub, v. s.w. dial.|strʌb|
[Of obscure origin: cf. strip v.]
trans. To rob, strip. Also absol.
c1680in A. H. A. Hamilton Quarter Sessions (1878) 220 [Robert Coad was convicted of] being a night walker, and pilfering and strubbing in the night-time. 1867Rock Jim & Nell lxiv, But they've a-strubb'd vlower-knats an' heaths, And fudgeed up zum purty wreaths. 1870Pengelly in N. & Q. Ser. iv. VI. 72/1 [In East Cornwall thirty years ago] to strub was to strip or rob. Thus, we were said to strub a bird's nest (not the bird) when we took the eggs or young birds from it. |