Brewer's: Rub

An impediment. The expression is taken from bowls, where “rub” means that something hinders the free movement of your bowl.

“Without rub or interruption.” —Swift.

Like a bowle that runneth in a smooth allie. Without anie rub.

Staniharst, p. 10.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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