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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1628-1694
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Crub(b, Crube, v. [Variant of e.m.E. curb, with usual metathesis of r, which is also found in Eng. dial. crub n. (from 16th c. onwards).] tr. To curb, restrain.1628 Mure Doomsday 160.
Nor crub't by love, nor aw 1629 Fam. Innes 218.
To crube the kings prerogatiwe 1639 Johnston Diary 69.
Power he hath to crubb their insolencies 1657 Balfour Ann. II. 377.
This acte was made to crube Traquaire 1673 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. IV. 46.
Wee doe recommend … that our troupes be so disposed of as feild conventicles may be crubbed 1694 12th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. viii. 47.
The circuit courts … being the best meanes that … wes found for crubbing theives and brokine men
