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Rub iron (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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