▪ I. † dubber1 Obs.
[a. OF. doubeur repairer, f. douber to trim, dress, repair: cf. dub v.1 7.]
A renovator of old clothes.
(But the meaning in quot. 1415 is uncertain: some have conjectured ‘trimmers or binders of MSS.’)
| 1225–6 Liber Albus i. ii. viii. (Rolls) 83 Et Paganus le Dubbour, unus vicinorum, attachiatur pro morte illa. 1240–1 Ibid. i. ii. xxxviii. (Rolls) 103 Et Johannes Clericus, Dubbeour, et Thomas de Marisco..committantur gaolæ. 1415 Liber Memorandorum A/Y lf. 129 b, in York Myst. Introd. 20 Que touz hosyers que vendront chauuces..aueront la charge del pagyne de Moyses et Pharao..horspris les Dubbers et ceux que sount assignez a eux. 1415 Ordo paginarum ludi Corporis Christi lf. 245 Ibid. 26 Escriueners, Lumners, Questors, Dubbers. |
▪ II. dubber2
see dubba.