a copy of writing or a design on a piece of stone or metal that is made by placing a piece of paper over it and rubbing with chalk, a pencil, etc:
She took a rubbing of the plaque.
seealsoBRASSRUBBING
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for rubbing is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is rubbing a noun, verb, or something else?
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