Rub

Give that lamp a good rub and see if any genies come out.

To die, to sleep— / To sleep—perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub! / For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, / When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, / Must give us pause

[…] the propriety of the cabman's shelter, as it was called, hardly a stonesthrow away near Butt bridge where they might hit upon some drinkables in the shape of a milk and soda or a mineral. But how to get there was the rub.

'My dear Devereux, I say, you mustn't talk in that wild way. You—you talk like a ruined man!' 'And I so comfortable!' 'Why, to be sure, Dick, you have had some little rubs, and, maybe, your follies and your vexations; but, hang it, you are young; you can't get experience—at least, so I've found it—without paying for it. […]'

a heat rub intended for muscular strains

I rubbed the cloth over the glass.

The cat rubbed itself against my leg.

I rubbed my hands together for warmth.

You ſhould rub your Teeth and whole Mouth and Gums, the Pallate and Tongue, with a clean courſe cloth, rubbing off the ſlime which groweth upon them in the night.

[…] Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.

My shoes are beginning to rub.

meat rubbed with spices before barbecuing

The smoothed plank, […] / New rubbed with balm.

to rub through woods, as huntsmen

to rub up silver

The whole business of our redemption is, in short, only to rub over the defaced copy of the creation

'Tis the duke's pleasure, / Whose disposition, all the world well knows, / Will not be rubbed nor stopped.