n. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] A roll of wool slightly twisted; a rove; -- called also slubbing. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Slubbed p. pr. & vb. n. Slubbing. ] To draw out and twist slightly; -- said of slivers of wool. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Slubbered p. pr. & vb. n. Slubbering. ] [ Cf. Dan. slubbreto swallow, to sup up, D. slobberen to lap, to slabber. Cf. Slabber. ] 1. To do lazily, imperfectly, or coarsely. [ 1913 Webster ]

Slubber not business for my sake. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To daub; to stain; to cover carelessly. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is no art that hath more . . . slubbered with aphorisming pedantry than the art of policy. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A slubbing machine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Slubber + Prov. E. gullion a wretch. ] A mean, dirty wretch. [ Low ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a slovenly, or hurried and imperfect, manner. [ Low ] Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. from Slub. [ 1913 Webster ]

Slubbing billy, or
Slubbing machine, the machine by which slubs are formed. [ 1913 Webster ]