rub sb. (3 not pre-S.)
1.
in bowls, an obstacle
by which a bowl is hindered in or diverted from its
proper course (fig.) R2 III. iv.
4.
2.
obstacle (physical or
otherwise)
John III. iv. 128
“each dust, each straw,
each little rub,”
H5 II. ii. 188,
Cor. III. i. 59
“this . . . rub, laid .
. . I' the plain way of his
merit,”
Ham. III. i. 65
“ay, there's the
rub.”
3.
unevenness,
inequality Mac. III. i.
134.
