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Webster 1913 Edition

Tub

Tub

,
Noun.
[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 circumference of which spiral vanes or floats, placed radially, are attached, turned by the impact of one or more streams of water, conducted so as to strike against the floats in the direction of a tangent to the cylinder.

Tub

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Tubbed
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Tubbing
.]
To plant or set in a tub;
as, to
tub
a plant
.

Tub

,
Verb.
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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Tub

TUB

, n.
1.
An open wooden vessel formed with staves, heading and hoops; used for various domestic purposes, as for washing, for making cheese, &c.
2.
A state of salivation; so called because the patient was formerly sweated in a tub. [Not in use.]
3.
A certain quantity; as a tub of tea, which is 60 pounds; a tub of camphor, from 56 to 80 pounds; a tub of vermilion, from 3 to 4 hundred pounds. [local.]
4.
A wooden vessel in which vegetables are planted, for the sake of being movable and set in a house in cold weather.

TUB

,
Verb.
T.
To plant or set in a tub.

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