Usually means: Applying pressure and moving frictionally.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word rubbing:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. rubbing: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rubbing: Merriam-Webster
  3. rubbing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rubbing: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rubbing: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rubbing: Vocabulary.com
  7. Rubbing, rubbing: Wordnik
  8. rubbing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. rubbing: Wiktionary
  10. rubbing: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. rubbing: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. rubbing: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Rubbing, rubbing: Dictionary.com
  14. rubbing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Rubbing (friction), Rubbing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Rubbing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. rubbing: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. rubbing: Rhymezone
  19. Rubbing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. rubbing: FreeDictionary.org
  21. rubbing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. rubbing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rubbing: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. rubbing: Legal dictionary
  2. rubbing: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rubbing: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rubbing: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rubbing: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rubbing: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  An impression of an embossed or incised surface made by placing a piece of paper over it and rubbing with graphite, crayon or other coloring agent.

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