Word of the day: drub

The word of the day is drub:

1. to beat with a stick or the like; cudgel; flog; thrash.
2. to defeat decisively, as in a game or contest.
3. to drive as if by flogging: Latin grammar was drubbed into their heads.
4. to stamp (the feet).

1630s (in an Oriental travel narrative), probably from Arabic darb "a beating," from daraba "he beat up." Related: Drubbing.

(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/drub)

"Foot soldiers have often drubbed mounted troops.  At the battle of Marathon in 490 B.C., the outnumbered, outarmored Athenian infantry destroyed the cavalry of the Persoan emperor Darius I."

 - Charles Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus