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Dubbing   Listen
noun
Dubbing  n.  
1.
The act of dubbing, as a knight, etc.
2.
The act of rubbing, smoothing, or dressing; a dressing off smooth with an adz.
3.
A dressing of flour and water used by weavers; a mixture of oil and tallow for dressing leather; daubing.
4.
The body substance of an angler's fly.





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"Dubbing" Quotes from Famous Books



... this oath, so publicly made, removed all his fears about a council; so inclined from this moment to yield to the King of France anything he might choose to ask, he took him by his left hand and made him a short and friendly reply, dubbing him the Church's eldest son. The ceremony over, they left the hall, the pope always holding the king's hand in his, and in this way they walked as far as the room where the sacred vestments are put off; the pope feigned a wish to conduct the king to his own apartments, but the king would not ...
— The Borgias - Celebrated Crimes • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
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... dubbing it just another of the schoolmaster's lies. It brought forward a contradictory explanation given by Meilhan to one Thener, a surgeon, whom he knew to be in frequent contact with the son whom the document ...
— She Stands Accused • Victor MacClure
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... only those who go abroad for their health who prefer a sailing ship, on account of the great length of the voyage, in allusion to which steam people call sailing ships "wind jammers," while the sailors retort on steamers by dubbing them "iron tanks" and "old coffins." There is no doubt that the picturesqueness of a sea voyage is quite destroyed by a steamer. There are no, or very few, regular sailors on board; so much of the work is now done by steam. There are no "chanties" or sailors' songs, which ...
— Six Letters From the Colonies • Robert Seaton
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