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[tuhb] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, tubbed, tub·bing.
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[tuhb] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, tubbed, tub·bing. –noun
–verb (used with object)
–verb (used without object)
| 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. |
| 10. | to place or keep in a tub. |
| 11. | British Informal. to bathe in a bathtub. |
| 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) Pronunciation Key
n.
v. tubbed, tub·bing, tubs v. tr.
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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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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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."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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| tub | |
noun | |
| 1. | a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body [syn: bathtub] |
| 2. | a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids |
| 3. | the amount that a tub will hold; "a tub of water" |
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TUB
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Tub\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tubbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Tubbing.] To plant or set in a tub; as, to tub a plant.
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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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