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tub

  [tuhb] noun, verb, tubbed, tub⋅bing.
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–noun
1. a bathtub.
2. a broad, round, open, wooden container, usually made of staves held together by hoops and fitted around a flat bottom.
3. any of various containers resembling or suggesting a tub: a tub for washing clothes.
4. the amount a tub will hold.
5. Informal. a short and fat person.
6. Nautical. an old, slow, or clumsy vessel.
7. British Informal. a bath in a bathtub.
8. Mining. an ore car; tram.
9. Military Slang. a two-seat aircraft, esp. a trainer.
–verb (used with object)
10. to place or keep in a tub.
11. British Informal. to bathe in a bathtub.
–verb (used without object)
12. British Informal. to bathe oneself in a bathtub.
13. Informal. to undergo washing, esp. without damage, as a fabric: This cotton print tubs well.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME tubbe (n.) < MD tobbe; c. MLG tubbe, tobbe

Related forms:
tub⋅ba⋅ble, adjective
tubber, noun
tublike, adjective
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tub   (tŭb)   
n.  
    1. An open, flat-bottomed vessel, usually round and typically wider than it is deep, used for washing, packing, or storing.
    2. The amount that such a vessel can hold.
    3. The contents of such a vessel.
    4. A bathtub.
    5. Informal A bath taken in a bathtub.
    6. A bucket used for conveying ore or coal up a mine shaft.
    7. A coal car used in a mine.
    1. A bathtub.
    2. Informal A bath taken in a bathtub.
    3. A bucket used for conveying ore or coal up a mine shaft.
    4. A coal car used in a mine.
  3. Informal A wide, clumsy, slow-moving boat.
    1. A bucket used for conveying ore or coal up a mine shaft.
    2. A coal car used in a mine.
v.   tubbed, tub·bing, tubs

v.   tr.
  1. To pack or store in a tub.
  2. To wash or bathe in a tub.
v.   intr.
To take a bath.

[Middle English, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German tubbe.]
tub'ba·ble adj., tub'ber n.
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Tub

Tub\, 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 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

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

Tub\, 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.
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Language Translation for : tub
Spanish: balde, tina,
German: der Bottich,
Japanese: おけ
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tub 
"open wooden vessel," c.1386, from M.L.G., M.Du., or M.Flem. tubbe, of uncertain origin. Related to O.H.G. zubar "vessel with two handles, wine vessel," Ger. Zuber. Considered to be unrelated to L. tubus (see tube); one theory connects it to the root of two based on the number of handles. Also 17c. slang for "pulpit;" hence tub-thumper (1662) "speaker or preacher who thumps the pulpit for emphasis."
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TUB
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