srub

From shrub.

• enPR: srŭb, IPA^(key): /sɹʌb/

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• Rhymes: -ʌb

srub (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of shrub (“a drink of fruit juice, spirits, etc.”)
   • 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:

     […] Will you take something? A glass of srub and water, now? I smoke on srub and water, myself,' said Mr. Omer, taking up his glass, 'because it's considered softening to the passages, by which this troublesome breath of mine gets into action.

• Brus, brus, burs, rubs, urbs

• IPA^(key): [ˈsrup]
• Rhymes: -up

srub m inan

1. a cabin (building made from wooden logs)

• srub in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• srub in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989