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rubstone |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Rub \Rub\, n. [Cf. W. rhwb. See Rub, v,t,] 1. The act of rubbing; friction. 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. Every rub is smoothed on our way --Shak. To sleep, perchance to dream; ay there's the rub. --Shak. Upon this rub, the English ambassadors thought fit to demur. --Hayward. One knows not certainly, what other rubs might have been ordained for us by a wise Providence. --W. Besant. 3. Inequality of surface, as of the ground in the game of bowls; unevenness. --Shak. 4. Something grating to the feelings; sarcasm; joke; as a hard rub. 5. Imperfection; failing; fault. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl 6. A chance. [Obs.] Flight shall leave no Greek a rub. --Chapman. 7. A stone, commonly flat, used to sharpen cutting tools; a whetstone; -- called also {rubstone}. {Rub iron}, an iron guard on a wagon body, against which a wheel rubs when cramped too much From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Rubstone \Rub"stone`\, n. A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub.
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