strub

Origin obscure. Perhaps from Middle English strupen, a variant of strepen (“to strip, rob, plunder”), from Old English *strȳpan (attested in Old English bestrȳpan (“to strip, rob, spoil, bereave”), whence English bestrip). More at strip.

strub (third-person singular simple present strubs, present participle strubbing, simple past and past participle strubbed)

1. (UK, dialect, transitive, intransitive) To rob, plunder; clear out completely; to strip.
   • 1920, Eden Phillpotts, The Thief of Virtue, page 172:

     " […] I mind a year ago, when I found a gladdy's nest and strubbed it, he catched me blowing the eggs to put along with others for a necklace for Jonathan French's sister, and, if he could have done it, he'd have given me a proper hiding."

• Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (1908).

• burst, trubs