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▪ I. slub, n.1 Now chiefly dial.|slʌb|
Also 7 slubb(e.
[? ad. MDu. slubbe in the same sense.]
Thick sludgy mud; mire, ooze. Also attrib.
1577–87Holinshed Chron. IV. 853 His wall..consisting onlie of slub and beach shoveled together. 1593Norden Spec. Brit., Cornw. (1728) 6 The lande..fortefies it selfe with heaped mountes of sande, slub, and pibble stones. 1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey i. x. 24 Ouer-flowing them with Fords or Land-flouds, affording a fatte and slimie substance or slubbe. a1676Hale De Jure Maris i. iv. in Hargrave's Law Tracts (1787) I. 17 The exaggeration of sand and slubb, which in process of time grow firm land. 1823[see slubby a.]. 1892Mrs. Owen & D. Jordan Within an Hour of London (ed. 2) 162 To the stranger, the slub looks like a level flat. Ibid., The ‘gripes’ and gullies of the slub ooze. Ibid. 163 If he is on the slub flats,..his situation is not to be envied.
▪ II. slub, n.2|slʌb|
[Of obscure origin.]
1. A lump on a thread.
1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 395 Taking out the slubs..left in the silk by the negligence of the foreign reeler. 1897Leeds Merc. Suppl. 23 Oct. (E.D.D.), Pike thi slubs off.
2. A yarn containing thickened parts, or slubs, at intervals; a fabric woven from such a yarn. Also attrib., having an irregular effect given by a warp of uneven thickness.
1928Daily Express 14 Aug. 4 Slub reps, artificial silk velour, chenille combined with artificial silk..are shown. 1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 779/1 Slub yarns, fancy yarns with thickened parts at frequent intervals. 1946Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 30 Apr. 12/7 Solid color blue slub-weave and white striped blue chambray. 1957Textile Terms & Defs. (Textile Inst.) (ed. 3) 42 Spun slubs may be produced by an intermittent acceleration of one pair of rollers during spinning. 1958Observer 24 Aug. 7/7 Structured skirt fabrics come from Manchester as well as from Switzerland, but there they go by the general, somewhat unfeminine designation of ‘slubs’. 1974News & Reporter (Chester, S. Carolina) 24 Apr. 6-a (Advt.), Textured rayon with interesting slub highlights. 1979Radio Times 5–11 May 14/1 In his choice of clothes—slub silk tie, silk pocket handkerchief, hound's-tooth jacket with turn-back cuffs—as in his choice of claret he declares himself a man of some style.
Hence slubbed a., of fabrics: containing slubs.
1961Harper's Bazaar June 55 Three piece in white slubbed rayon. 1980M. Drabble Middle Ground 171 Her vast off-white, gold-tasselled, slubbed-silk settee.
▪ III. slub, n.3|slʌb|
Also slubb.
[f. slub v.2]
A slubbing of cotton or wool; a roving.
1851Art Jrnl. Illustr. Catal. p. v**/2 By the revolution of the spindle and flyer the cotton slub receives its twist. 1868Chambers's Encycl. X. 265/1 The spindles upon which these slubbs or slubbings are wound.
▪ IV. slub, v.1 dial.|slʌb|
[f. slub n.1]
trans. To cover or plaster with mud.
1823E. Moor Suffolk Words 365 Walls raised from the ooze of rivers require to be slubb'd over. 1886Jefferies Field & Hedgerow (1889) 187 Those who try to go through get ‘slubbed’ up to their knees.
▪ V. slub, v.2|slʌb|
Also slubb.
[Of obscure origin; the vbl. n. is found earlier.]
trans. To draw out and twist (wool, cotton, etc.) after carding, so as to prepare it for spinning. Also absol. Hence slubbed ppl. a.
1834New Monthly Mag. XLI. 527 Machinery for roving and slubbing cotton and wool. 1844G. Dodd Textile Manuf. iii. 107 The ‘slubbed’ wool is taken from the mill to the house of the clothier, there to be spun. 1864A. Jeffrey Hist. Roxburghshire IV. 116 The manufacturers were forced to get two women from Leeds to teach them to slubb and spin. |