Obs. Also 4–6 iobbe, 6 iobb, 7 jub. [Origin unascertained.] A large vessel for liquor.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Miller’s T., 442. With breed and chese and good Ale in a Iubbe. Ibid., Shipman’s T., 70. With hym broghte he a Iubbe of Maluesye.
1392. Earl Derby’s Exp. (Camden), 154. Et pro j pare jobbes de iiij galonibus, iiij paribus potel botels, xij pottes galoners.
1570. Levins, Manip., 181/30. Iubbe, cantharus, scyphus. [In Bullokar, Cockeram, Phillips as obsolete word, Jub.]
