† jubbe Obs.
Also 4–6 iobbe, 6 iobb, 7 jub.
[Origin unascertained.]
A large vessel for liquor.
| c 1386 Chaucer Miller's T. 442 With breed and chese and good Ale in a Iubbe. ― Shipman's T. 70 With hym broghte he a Iubbe of Maluesye. 1392 Earl Derby's Exp. (Camden) 154 Et pro j pare jobbes de iiij galonibus, iiij paribus potel botels, xij pottes galoners. 1570 Levins Manip. 181/30 Iubbe, cantharus, scyphus. [In Bullokar, Cockeram, Phillips as obsolete word, Jub.] |