Drub (verb)
drub
To beat like a drum. To flog with a stick. To stamp one’s feet.
1625–35; perhaps by uncertain mediation from Arabic ḍarb blow, beating
Example sentences
“It was so peaceful, silence apart from the ocassional drub of the cormorant’s wings.”
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