strub

== English == === Etymology === Origin obscure. Perhaps from Middle English strupen, a variant of strepen (“to strip, rob, plunder”), from Old English *strȳpan (attested in Old English bestrȳpan (“to strip, rob, spoil, bereave”), whence English bestrip). More at strip. === Verb === strub (third-person singular simple present strubs, present participle strubbing, simple past and past participle strubbed) (UK, dialect, ambitransitive) To rob, plunder; clear out completely; to strip. ==== References ==== Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (1908). === Anagrams === burst, trubs