J. EASTWOOD.

Ecclesfield.

[To this it may be added, that _Dub-a-dub_ is found in Halliwell's

_Arch. Gloss._ with the definition, "To beat a drum; also, the blow on

the drum. 'The dub-a-dub of honour.' Woman is a weathercock, p. 21.,

there used metaphorically." Mr. Halliwell might also have cited the

nursery rhyme:

"Sing rub-a-dub-dub,

Three men in a tub."]

_Quotations._--

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