run-rub

Updated: June 28, 2025

When they had laughed sufficiently at this ludicrous occurrence, the party began to divide themselves into little knots some took possession of the alley, late the scene of combat, and put the field to its proper use of a bowling-ground, and it soon resounded with all the terms of the game, as "run, run-rub, rub hold bias, you infernal trundling timber!" thus making good the saying, that three things are thrown away in a bowling-green, namely, time, money, and oaths.

Sir Walter Scott - The Fortunes of Nigel