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单词 rubb
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rubbn.1

Forms: 1600s rubb, 1700s rubbe.
Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German RubbeRobbe.
Etymology: < German †Rubbe (1675 in the passage translated in quot. 1694), variant of Robbe (1618) < a Middle Low German form (compare German regional (Low German) †Rubbe, †Rub, †Robbe, Robb) probably cognate with Middle Dutch robbe (c1512 or earlier; Dutch rob) and West Frisian robbe; further etymology uncertain. Compare Danish robbe (late 18th cent. or earlier; probably < Dutch).For an account of the various suggestions that have been made for the ulterior etymology of this word, see A. Liberman in Gen. Linguistics 35 (1997) 108–19.
Obsolete. rare.
A seal (the animal).
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Pinnipedia (seal, sea lion, or walrus) > [noun] > family Phocidae > seal
sealc893
sea-seala1398
seal-fishc1420
sea-veal1576
phoca1594
sea tun1601
sea-calf1616
rubb1694
swile1802
tang-fish1809
sea-pig1826
earless seal1833
phocacean1842
phocid1871
floe-flat1883
phocine1890
1694 tr. F. Martens Voy. Spitzbergen 103 in Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. The Sea-Dogs, called Rubbs [Ger. Rubbe] and Seales.
1725 Brice's Weekly Jrnl. 27 Aug. 2 The Sea-Dog, or Dog-fish, commonly called a Seal, or Rubbe, which was lately brought from Greenland.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

rubbn.2

Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German Rubb.
Etymology: < German Rubb (1751 in the passage translated in quot. 1756, or earlier) < Italian regional (Piedmont) rub , rubbo , variant of rubbio (a1556; 14th cent. as rugghio ) < Arabic rubʿ (see arroba n.).
Obsolete. rare.
A unit of weight formerly used in Piedmont, equal to approx. 25 pounds (11 kg).
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1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 288 Many peasants in Piedmont sell annually four or five Rubbs [Ger. Rubbs] of raw silk (each Rubb weighing twenty-five pounds).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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