Hypertext Webster Gateway: "drubbing"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Drub \Drub\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Drubbed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Drubbing}.] [Cf. Prov. E. drab to beat, Icel. & Sw. drabba
to hit, beat, Dan. dr[ae]be to slay, and perh. OE. drepen to
strike, kill, AS. drepan to strike, G. & D. freffen to hit,
touch, Icel. drepa to strike, kill.]
To beat with a stick; to thrash; to cudgel.
Soundly Drubbed with a good honest cudgel.
--L'Estrange.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
drubbing
n 1: a sound defeat [syn: {thrashing}, {walloping}, {debacle}, {slaughter},
{trouncing}, {whipping}]
2: the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated
blows [syn: {beating}, {thrashing}, {lacing}, {trouncing},
{whacking}]
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