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(), n.[OE. tubbe; of Dutch or Low German origin; cf. LG. tubbe, D. tobbe.] 1. An open wooden vessel formed with staves, bottom, and hoops; a kind of short cask, half barrel, or firkin, usually with but one head, -- used for various purposes. 2. The amount which a tub contains, as a measure of quantity; as, a tub of butter; a tub of camphor, which is about 1 cwt., etc. 3. Any structure shaped like a tub: as, a certain old form of pulpit; a short, broad boat, etc., -- often used jocosely or opprobriously. All being took up and busied, some in pulpits and some in tubs, in the grand work of preaching and holding forth. South. 4. A sweating in a tub; a tub fast. [Obs.] Shak. 5. A small cask; as, a tub of gin. 6. A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft; -- so called by miners. Tub fast, an old mode of treatment for the venereal disease, by sweating in a close place, or tub, and fasting. [Obs.] Shak. Tub wheel, a horizontal water wheel, usually in the form of a short cylinder, to the circum Tub v. t.[imp. & p. p.Tubbed (); p. pr. & vb. n.Tubbing.] To plant or set in a tub; as, to tub a plant. Tub v. i.To make use of a bathing tub; to lie or be in a bath; to bathe. [Colloq.] Don't we all tub in England ? London Spectator. スポンサード リンク
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