A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1665-1700+
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Crubbing, Crub(e)ing, vbl. n. [f. Crub(b,v.] Curbing, restraining. —1665 Glasgow B. Rec. III. 52.
To walk throw the kirk … with ane whyt staff in his hand for the crubbing of bairnes and utheris that makis disturbance in the kirk 1668 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. II. 533.
A militia in the northern shyres … would conduce much … for restraining and crubing of robries 1701 Ann. Banff I. 172.
For crubing of vice, swearing, and such like misdeamenors
