[f. CUB sb.1 Cf. whelp vb.]
1. trans. and intr. To bring forth cubs.
1755. in Johnson.
1843. Marryat, M. Violet, xliv. 369, note. It [the puma] will seldom attack unless when cubbing.
1864. Moral Statist. Glasgow, 299. When the tigress cubs a lamb, when the vulture breeds a dove.
2. To cub it: to live as a cub.
