rub

hangata

hinkata, hieroa An act of rubbing.

Give that lamp a good rub and see if any genies come out

Therein lies the rub.

To die, to sleep—/To sleep—perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub!/For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,/When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,/Must give us pause

...the propriety of the cabman's shelter, as it was called, hardly a stonesthrow away near Butt bridge where they might hit upon some drinkables in the shape of a milk and soda or a mineral. But how to get there was the rub.

a heat rub intended for muscular strains

(ux)

It shall be expedient, after that body is cleaned, to rub the body with a coarse linen cloth.

meat rubbed with spices before barbecuing

The smoothed plank, (..) / New rubbed with balm.

to rub up silver

The whole business of our redemption is to rub over the defaced copy of the creation.

'Tis the duke's pleasure, / Whose disposition, all the world well knows, / Will not be rubbed nor stopped.

rub karty -- back of the card

rub mince -- reverse of the coin