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Rub-a-dub   /rəb-ə-dəb/   Listen
Rub-a-dub

noun
1.
The sound made by beating a drum.  Synonyms: drumbeat, rataplan.






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"Rub-a-dub" Quotes from Famous Books



... measured martial tune, but a kind of rub-a-dub-dub, like that with which the fire-drum startles the slumbering artizans of a Scotch burgh. It is the object of this history to do justice to all men; I must therefore record, in justice to the drummer, that he protested he could beat any known march or point of war known in the British ...
— Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete • Sir Walter Scott

... latest books indicate the range of his gifts and his excellences. In Hey Rub-A-Dub-Dub, which he calls A Book of the Mystery and Wonder and Terror of Life, he undertook to expound his general philosophy and produced the most negligible of all his works. He has no faculty for sustained argument. Like Byron, as soon as he begins to reason he is ...
— Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) • Carl Van Doren

... ghost of the Zhack flitted by in a trance; And the Squidjum hid under a tub As he heard the loud hooves of the Hooken advance With a rub-a-dub-dub-a-dub dub! And the Crankadox cried as he laid down and died, "My fate there is none to bewail!" While the Queen of the Wunks drifted over the tide With a long piece of crape ...
— Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) • Bill Nye



Words linked to "Rub-a-dub" :   sound, drumbeat



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