Tub

[tʌb]

Definition

(noun.) a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids.

(noun.) the amount that a tub will hold; 'a tub of water'.

Checker: Thomas--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(n.) Any structure shaped like a tub: as, a certain old form of pulpit; a short, broad boat, etc., -- often used jocosely or opprobriously.

(n.) A sweating in a tub; a tub fast.

(n.) A small cask; as, a tub of gin.

(n.) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft; -- so called by miners.

(v. t.) To plant or set in a tub; as, to tub a plant.

(i.) To make use of a bathing tub; to lie or be in a bath; to bathe.

Editor: Solomon

Definition

n. a two-handed open wooden vessel: a vessel made of staves and hoops: a small cask: anything like a tub: the quantity a tub holds: (slang) a pulpit: a clumsy boat: a receptacle for bathing water: the act of bathing in a tub.—v.t. to set to bathe in a tub.—v.i. to take a bath in a tub.—n. Tub′bing the art of or the material for making tubs: in mining a method of keeping out the water in sinking a shaft in watery ground: a tub-bath: rowing in clumsy boats.—adjs. Tub′bish round and fat; Tub′by sounding like an empty tub: dull: wanting elasticity of sound: round like a tub.—ns. Tub′-fast (Shak.) a process of treating venereal disease by sweating in a hot tub; Tub′ful as much as a tub will hold; Tub′-gig a Welsh car; Tub′-thump′er (slang) a ranting preacher; Tub′-wheel a kind of bowl-shaped water-wheel like the turbine with spiral flanges at the exterior.

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