Fwd: define drub

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The MIllison (cuckoo beginning to protrude from forehead):

<<>From: wsmith at wordsmith.org
>Subject:  define drub
>
>2 definitions found
>
>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.
>
>Drub \Drub\, n.
>    A blow with a cudgel; a thump. --Addison.
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Leaving aside your using "wordsmith.org" as your source, is it your notion 
that to use a word with varying connotations, meanings, colorations, etc. is 
to, in every instance, cargo that usage with all the its other meanings 
(colorations, etc.)?  You're evidently a fool, but are you mad?

If I use the word "run" in the baseball sense and context,  I trust it will 
be understood as such and not to include as well, e.g., the nylon stocking 
sense.  Although, in your case, this is clearly expecting a lot.

I used the term to mean verbally berate; you read it only as to attack 
physically.  The psychological implications of that are interesting,  
certainly, but not to your merit.