Obs. exc. dial. [f. CUB sb.2] trans. To confine as in a ‘cub’; to coop up.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., I. ii. IV. v. What misery … must it needs bring to him … to be cubbed vp vpon a sudden.
1629. Mabbe, trans. Fonseca’s Devout Contempl., 46. Dauids souldiers fingers incht, & would faine haue set vpon Saul, when they had him cub’d vp in the caue.
1693. Dryden, Persius’ Sat., v. Cubb’d in a cabbin, on a mattrass laid.
1791. Gent. Mag., LXI. II. 809. It is the fashion … for all the English to be cubbed up in the Fauxbourg St. Germain.
1882. W. Worcester Gloss., Cub, to confine in small space. Cubbed-up, bent, crumpled.
