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rubai |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Rub \Rub\, n. {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. Rubaiyat \Ru*bai*yat"\, n. pl.; sing. {Rubai}. [Ar. rub[=a]'iy[=a]h quatrian, pl of rub[=a]'iy having four radicals, fr rub[=a]' four.] Quatrians as the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Sometimes in pl construed as sing., a poem in such stanzas.
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