The straps on pieced rugs should have some dubbing (momrogan) now and again rubbed into them, to prevent their getting hard and the leather perishing.
Saddles are cleaned in the same way as in England, and excellent saddle soap and dubbing is made by the North-west Province Soap Works at Meerut, and can be obtained almost anywhere.
If this is not used, the "syces" can always make up dubbing of their own, called "momrogan.
Carlyle hits the mark in dubbing Gladstone a deeper and unconscious juggler as contrasted with Disraeli, the clever, conscious juggler.
Many a pleasant hour may be spent, that otherwise would prove tedious, when confined to quarters of an unfavourable day, far from home, looking over your dubbing book and tying a fly.
Everywhere else dubbing or the accolade seems to have become obsolete, and no other species of knighthood, if knighthood it can be called, is known except that which is dependent on admission to some particular order.
This is the manner of dubbing knights at this present, and that term 'dubbing' was the old term in this point, not 'creating.
In March, the dark-bodied willow fly may be regarded as the earliest fly; the imitation of which is made by a dark claret dubbing and a dun hackle, or four small starling’s wing feathers.
I think the colour of the dubbing is too bright: try a winged fly for the stretcher with a greenish body.
The blue dun comes on in the middle of the day in this month, and is imitated by dun hackles for wings and legs, and an olive dubbing for body.
And I am unable to discover any justification for arbitrarily picking out some of these and dubbingthem historical verities, while rejecting the rest as legendary fictions.
The dubbing must now be twisted round the silk, and wrapped upon the hook for nearly half the proposed length of the body; fasten it there by a single loop, that both hands may be at liberty to manage the tackle.
The silk and dubbing must now be twisted over the end of the tackle, until the body of the fly is of the length required, and then fastened.
If gold or silver twist is used, the twist should be fastened to the lower end of the body before the dubbing is applied to the silk.
This commission for dubbing a knight, and so distinguished a one, will be a very agreeable and creditable one for you, 'et il faut vous en acquitter galamment'.
It is a good plan however to take and wet your dubbing previous to making use of it, because when dry it may appear the exact colour you need, yet wetted quite the reverse.
In regard to Silks be careful to suit the colour of the silk (at least as much so as you possibly can,) to the hackle you select for dubbing with.
The above selection of silks and dubbing are for Palmers and winged flies generally.
Now fasten in with a turn or two of the silk the dubbingfor the body of the fly.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dubbing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
