Dŭb1, v. t.
v. t. [imp. & p. p. DUBBED; p. pr. & vb. n. DUBBING.] [A-S. dubban, Icel. dubba, to strike, beat; A-S. dubban to ridere, Icel. dubba til riddara, to create a knight, O. Fr. addubber or adouber à chevalier, Pr. adobar à cavallier; O. Fr. adouber, Pr. & O. Sp. adobar, It. addobbare, to arm, furnish, decorate, arrange.]
Sense 1. To strike with a sword and make a knight; as, the king dubbed his son Henry a knight.
Sense 2. To invest with any dignity or new character; to entitle.
A man of wealth is dubbed a man of worth. Pope.
Sense 3. To clothe or invest; to ornament; to embellish; to adorn. [Obs.]
His diadem was dropped down Dubbed with stones. Morte d’Arthure.
Sense 4. To strike, rub, or dress smooth; to dab; as, (a.) To cut down or reduce with an adz; as, to dub a stick of timber. (b.) To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap. Halliwell. (c.) To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of currying it. Tomlinson.
To dub a fly, to dress a fishing-fly [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.—To dub out, to fill out, as an uneven surface, to render it level.