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▪ I. tub, n.|tʌb|
Forms: 4–7 tubbe, 5–6 tobbe, 5–7 tob, 6 toubbe, tube, toob (also 9 dial.), 6–7 tubb, 6– tub.
[ME. tubbe = MDu., MLG. tubbe, tobbe, Du. and MFl. tobbe, Flem. tubbe (ü), tibbe, WFris. tobbe, LG., and EFris. tubbe.]
1. a. An open wooden vessel, wide in proportion to its height, usually formed of staves and hoops, of cylindrical or slightly concave form, with a flat bottom.
Often with defining word indicating its special use, as alms-tub, bath-t., butter-t., kneading-t., wash-t., etc.: see these words. Also loosely applied to a butt, barrel, or cask.
c1386Chaucer Miller's T. 435 He gooth and geteth hym a knedyng trogh, And after that a tubbe and a kymelyn. 1392–3Early Derby's Exp. (Camden) 224 Pro vasis ligneis..viz. tubbes, trowes, boketes et basketes. 1481–90Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 228 Item, for a lok for the almes tobbe, ij. d. 1496Nottingham Rec. III. 296 For v. tobys. 1509–10Rec. St. Mary at Hill 269 Paid to a Coper for hopyng of the Tobbys and þe Barelles that longith to the Chirche xvj d. 1526Dunmow Churchw. Acc. lf. 5 b (MS.) Payde for a toob and ii. bokks to fett watter, vii d. 1531Lett. & Pap. Hen. VIII, V. 180 For morter toubbis, cowlis, water buckettes,..etc. 1557in Lanc. & Chesh. Wills (1884) 64, iiij Tubbs to salte fleshe in. 1561Hollybush Hom. Apoth. 3 b, Bath his fete in a depe tob. 1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 58 Take tub for a season, take sack for a shift. 1645Bp. Hall Remedy Discontent. xvi. 86 Here doe I see a Cynick housed in his Tub, scorning all wealth and state. 1829Lytton Devereux iii. iv, Diogenes in his tub. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. ii, A distorted fir-tree, planted..in a tub.
fig.1693Humours Town 2 Coop'd up..like a Cinic, in thy Tub of a Study.
†b. A sweating-tub formerly used in the treatment of venereal disease; hence, the use of this; see quots. and cf. tub-fast in 10; also called (Mother) Cornelius' tub, and allusively powdering-tub. Obs.
1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. 17 Mother Cornelius tub why it was like hell, he that came into it, neuer came out of it. 1599[see powdering-tub 2]. 1603Shakes. Meas. for M. iii. ii. 60 Luc. How doth..thy Mistris? Procures she still? Ha? Clo. Troth sir, shee hath eaten vp all her beefe, and she is her selfe in the tub. 1608R. Armin Nest Ninn. E iv b, Where they should study in priuate with Diogenes in his Cell, they are with Cornelius in his tub. 1676Wiseman Chirurg. Treat. viii. ii. 13 Tub and Chair were the old way of sweating, but [etc.]. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 421/2 He beareth Argent, a Doctors Tub, (otherwise called a Cleansing Tub), Sable; Hooped, Or.
c. Gold-mining. A puddling tub.
1853E. Clacy Lady's Visit Gold Diggings Austral. 116 Great wooden tubs are filled with the dirt and fresh water. 1859,1869[see puddling vbl. n. 4, puddle v. 6]. 1864Rogers New Rush ii. 47 Miners' tubs and cradles, left to chance, On the resistless torrent's surface dance. 1884T. Bracken Lays of Maori 154 The music of the puddling mill, the cradle, and the tub.
d. Used as a measure of capacity, varying with the commodity it contained: see quots.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Tub of Tea, the Quantity of about 60 Pounds: of Camphire from 56 to 86 Pounds: of Vermilion from 3 to 4 Hundred Weight. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade s.v., The tub of butter must contain at least 84 lbs.; the tub of camphor is 130 Dutch lbs.
e. A small cask or keg of spirit, containing about four gallons. (A smugglers' term.)
1835Marryat Three Cutters ii, I made three seizures, besides sweeping up those thirty-seven tubs. 1869R. M. Ballantyne Deep Down xiv. 180 They do say that the boats⁓men [coast-guards] are informed about the toobs. 1884J. C. Egerton Sussex Folk & Ways v. 65 This cottage..has..been full of tubs from top to bottom as ever it could hold.
f. vulgar colloq. Applied to a corpulent person.
1897Flandrau Harvard Episodes 316 With a moon-faced tub of a woman I'd never seen before,..hanging on to me.
g. A tub-shaped carton, spec. one containing a portion of ice-cream; the contents of a carton.
1939‘G. Orwell’ Coming up for Air iv. iii. 248, I watched the floats rocking up and down among the ice-cream tubs and the paper bags. 1955‘C. Brown’ Lost Girls xii. 139 You bought these ices from a fat woman holding out a podgy hand and saying, ‘Two tubs, ducks?’ 1981P. Vansittart Death of Robin Hood iv. i. 183 The sallow ground was strewn with..ice-cream tubs, empty tins and ruined shoes.
2. A bathing-tub, bath-tub (of any shape); colloq. or jocularly, a bath; hence, the action or practice of taking a bath, esp. on rising.
[1594Plat Jewell-ho. iii. 94 The room would be close wherin you place your bathing tub.] 1776H. Newdigate Let. in A. E. Newdigate-Newdegate Cheverels (1898) i. 11 To-night I can use my warm Bath..which I cannot at present do conveniently at home having neither Tub nor dressers. 1849Knife & Fork 11 They..have an hereditary aversion for the Saturday tub. 1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. iii, A great splashing in an inner room stopped..and Drysdale's voice shouted out that he was in his tub. 1865‘C. Bede’ Rook's Gard., etc. 251 I must have been prior to the date of the institution of the tub. 1893A. Lang St. Andrews i. 15 note, George Wishart astonished his contemporaries by taking cold tubs.
3. Applied to a slow clumsy ship, esp. one which is too broad in proportion to its length; often humorous or contemptuous; also, a short, broad boat; spec. a stout roomy boat used for rowing practice, as distinguished from a racing-boat; cf. tub-gig, tub-pair (see 10), tub v. 4.
a1618Raleigh Invent. Shipping 9 In Cæsars time, the French Brittains..had very untoward Tubs in which they made Warre against him. 1675Hobbes Odyssey (1677) 54 And now my child at sea is in a tub. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. ii. iv. (1861) 52 Here the rapid tide..seizing on the gallant tub.., hurried it forward with a velocity unparalleled in a Dutch boat, navigated by Dutchmen. 1827Blackw. Mag. XXI. 398 One was four feet broader, another was as much shorter than the Victory, and they were in comparison all Tubs. 1841J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk III. 4 No lighter boat, except the little tubs used for rowing off from the beach, could be obtained. 1853‘C. Bede’ Verdant Green x, He next day..made his first essay in a ‘tub’. 1901D. B. Hall & Ld. A. Osborne Sunshine & Surf iv, His old tub of a vessel..was known from one end of the Pacific to the other.
4. Applied contemptuously or jocularly to a pulpit, esp. of a nonconformist preacher: cf. tub-preacher, -thumper.
1643Owen Duty of Pastors & People viii, Must a master of a family cease praying in his family,..for fear of being counted a preacher in a tub? 1680Dryden Prol. to University of Oxford 13 Jack Presbyter shall here erect his throne, Knock out a tub with preaching once a day. 1710Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) II. 351 A huge Bonfire was made, and the Tub in wch he used to hold forth was plac'd on y⊇ top of the Pile. 1728Pope Dunc. ii. 2 A gorgeous seat, that far out-shone Henley's gilt tub, or Fleckno's Irish throne. 1891Spectator 5 Dec. 804/2 Let the pulpit speak, and the tub too—there will still be too much sleep.
5. Coal-mining.
a. ‘Originally a mining bucket, now specially applied to the open-topped box of wood or iron, mounted on wheels, in which coal is brought from the face to the surface. It has supplanted the old ‘corf’, which was a basket carried on a tram. The tram and tub are now, in most cases, a single structure’ (Heslop Northumb. Gloss. 1894). Cf. corf 2, tram n.2 2.
1851Greenwell Coal-trade Terms Northumb. & Durh. 54 Tub, an open-topped box of wood or iron, attached to a tram, and used in conveying coals from the working places to the surface. 1859R. Hunt Guide Mus. Pract. Geol. (ed. 2) 222 Cages [in coal mines] are attached to the wire rope, and these move in guides in the pit. The tub (8 cwt.) is placed in those [cages], and when drawn to the surface placed in the teaming cradles. 1893Athenæum 21 Oct. 551/3 The old-fashioned ‘tub’ in the cut ‘A Coal Mine’ will hardly be recognized by the present generation of pit⁓men.., who, though they still use the word, no longer know the thing, which has been replaced by small trucks which run on rails into the cage. 1894Heslop (as above), The tub, containing twenty-four pecks [is] three feet in length, thirty inches in width, and twenty-six in depth.
b. The lining of a pit-shaft.
1839[implied in tub-plank in 10]. 1855Orr's Circ. Sc., Inorg. Nat. 237 In all cases, the foundation of a permanent tub should rest on a water-tight stratum. 1860Weale Dict. Terms (ed. 2), Tub, a cast-iron cylinder put in the shaft instead of bricking. 1877Knight Dict. Mech., Tub,..a casing of wood or of cast-iron sections..lining a shaft.
6.
†a. On the early railways vulgarly applied to an open truck or a seatless carriage. Obs.
1886H. S. Brown Autobiog. vii. (1887) 30 We called it a ‘stand up’ and it also went by the name of ‘a tub’. 1890N. & Q. 7th Ser. IX. 470/2 At the time when the railway between Nottingham and Grantham was opened forty years ago, carriages of the lowest class,..third or fourth, were something like [what] cattle-trucks are now, and were known colloquially as ‘tubs’.
†b. A covered carriage or conveyance. Obs.
c. ? = tub-gig (a) (see 10).
1889John Bull 2 Mar. 142/2 Tubs we ca' the covered carriages, tubs wasn't known in these parts. 1911F. Harrison Autobiog. Mem. II. xxiv. 73 It was the age of ‘tubs’ and they often took Jane Brice, my mother and Ellinor Abraham..as sitters.
d. A fire-engine. U.S. slang.
1864Student & Schoolmate Jan. 3 The rope was only half manned and wishing to make myself useful..I joined the party in charge of the ‘tub’. 1906J. D. Lovett Old Boston Boys vii. 67 A boy without a ‘tub’, as they were called in the vernacular, was like a man without a country.
e. A bus; to work the tubs, to pick pockets on buses or at bus-stops. slang (chiefly Underworld).
1929G. Dilnot Triumphs of Detection iv. 52 Snatches of their conversation..told that they were on their way to ‘work the tubs’—in other words, to pick pockets at omnibus stopping-places. 1933C. E. Leach On Top of Underworld x. 141 Tub, omnibus. 1974P. Wright Lang. Brit. Industry x. 85 Inland transport comes along with tubs for buses.
7. Naut. See quot.
1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Tubs, Topsail-halliard, circular framed racks in which the topsail-halliards are coiled clear for running.
8. A local name of the gurnard, esp. the sapphirine gurnard, Trigla hirundo. Also tub-fish (see 10).
Couch takes this as a contraction of Cornish tubbot, -ut.
1602Carew Cornwall 32 Of flat [fish there are] Brets, Turbets, Dories,..Tub, Breame &c. 1836Yarrell Brit. Fishes I. 42 From West bay to the Land's End, where the Gurnards are called Tubs, Tubfish and, in reference to colour, Red Tubs. 1861Act 24 & 25 Vict. c. 109 §4 All migratory fish of the genus salmon,..salmon,..buntling, guiniad, tubs, yellow fin, sprod, herling,..or..any other local name. 1863Rep. Sea Fisheries Comm. (1865) II. 404/2 A tub..is a large specimen of the gurnet... Hake and tubs are the most we catch.
9. In proverbial phrases:
†a. a tale of a tub, an apocryphal tale; a ‘cock and bull’ story. Obs.
b. (to throw out) a tub to the whale, to create a diversion, esp. in order to escape a threatened danger.
c. every tub must (or let every tub) stand on its own bottom: cf. bottom n. 11 b.
a.1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 371/2 Consider the places & his wordes together, & ye shal find al his processe therin a fayre tale of a Tub. 1532[see tale n. 5 b]. 1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 144 A tale of a tub, thy tales taste all of ale. 1631F. Lenton Charac. F ix b, Oft-times hee goes but to the next Tauerne, and then very discreetly brings her home a tale of a Tubbe. 1709O. Dykes Eng. Prov. & Refl. (ed. 2) 57 If one talks of Chalk, another will talk of Cheese still, or tell a Tale of a Tub. 1724[see tale n. 5 b].
b.1704Swift T. Tub Author's Pref. 14 Sea-men have a Custom when they meet a Whale, to fling him out an empty Tub,..to divert him from laying violent Hands upon the Ship... It was decreed, that in order to prevent these Leviathans from tossing and sporting with the Commonwealth (which of it self is too apt to fluctuate) they should be diverted..by a Tale of a Tub. 1728–31Lett. fr. Fog's Jrnl. (1732) II. 73 It has been common to throw out something to divert and amuse the People, such as a Plot, a Conspiracy, or an Enquiry about Nothing,..which Method of Proceeding, by a very apt Metaphor, is call'd throwing out the Tub. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1810) III. vii. 54. 1768 Earl Malmesbury Diaries & Corr. I. 23 We find it a mere tub to amuse the whale. 1826J. Doyle Ess. Cath. Claims 248 Some tub for a whale of prejudice to knash its teeth against. 1912Nation 29 June 465/2 He throws a tub to the High Church whale.
c.1730–6Bailey (folio) s.v., Every Tub must stand upon it's own Bottom. 1772Graves Spir. Quix. (1820) I. 171. 1885 ‘H. Conway’ Fam. Affair xxix, I think it's better to let every tub stand on its own bottom.
10. attrib. and Comb., as tub-bath, tub-boat, tub-ear (ear n.1 8), tub-eight (eight B. 2 b), tub-end, tub-hoop (in quot. transf.), tub-kennel, tub-life, tub-plank, tub-plant, tub-pulpit, tub-timber, tub-washing; objective, as tub-buyer, tub-carrier, tub-filler, tub-maker; in sense 4, as tub-lecture, tub-meeter, tub-minister, tub-orator; also tub-bellied, tub-brained, tub-coopering, tub-keeping, tub-like, tub-shaped adjs.; also tub-bass, a bass string instrument made from a tub; tub-butter, butter packed in tubs for keeping or export; tub-camphor, camphor imported in tubs (from Japan); tub-cart = tub-gig (a); tub-chair, a deep semicircular chair resembling a tub; tub-dress, a dress of washing material: cf. tub-frock; tub-drubber = tub-thumper; tub-engine, a contrivance for raising water by means of a chain of tubs or the like; tub-fake (fake n.1), the coiled tow-line in the line-tub of a whale-boat (Cent. Dict. 1891 cites J. W. Collins); † tub-fast, abstinence during treatment in the sweating-tub: cf. 1 b; tub-fish = sense 8; tub-frock = tub-dress; tub garden, an area containing plants grown in tubs; tub-gardening, cultivation of plants or trees in tubs; tub-gig, (a) a deep low-hung gig with rounded corners and seats facing inwards; a governess car; (b) = tub-pair; tub-gin = tub-engine; † tub-hunter, a parasite, a sponger; tub-loader Coal-mining: see quot.; tub-oar, the oar next the line-tub in a whale-boat; so tub-oarsman, one who attends to the running of the line when in use (Cent. Dict. 1891); tub-pair, a pair-oared practice boat (College slang); tub-plot, cf. Meal-tub Plot (meal n.1 3 b); tub-race, a race in which the competitors use tubs instead of boats; tub-saw, a cylindrical saw; tub-size v., trans. to size (paper) in a tub or vat; to hand-size, as distinguished from engine-size; hence tub-sized ppl. a.; tub-skirt, tub-suit: cf. tub-dress; tub-sugar, sugar packed in chests and covered with fine clay (Cent. Dict. 1891); † tub-tail, a farthingale or hooped skirt; one who wears this (contemptuous); tub-trimmer, ? a cooper; in quot. fig.; tub-wheel, (a) the wheel of a colliery ‘tub’; (b) a horizontal water-wheel with spiral floats; = danaide; (c) a rotating drum in which hides are washed (Funk's Stand. Dict. 1895); tub-woman, a woman who carries a tub or tubs; also a woman suggesting a tub in figure. See also tubman, tub-preacher, tub-thumper, etc.
1958P. Oliver in P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz i. 23 Parallels have been drawn between the *tub-bass and the African earth-bow, but that the former is a folk memory of the other seems unlikely.
1896Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 850 Each patient receives a *tub-bath of twenty minutes at 70° every third hour.
1846J. Baxter's Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 263 Before the South-down sheep were improved, they were very flat on the ribs, and *tub-bellied.
1883Brit. Q. Rev. July 108 Crossing the narrow water-way in one of the heavy *tub-boats of the country.
1634W. Wood New Eng. Prosp. To Rdr., Many a *tub-brain'd Cynicke, who because any thing..is too large for the straite hoopes of his apprehension, he peremptorily concludes it is a lye.
1829S. Shaw Hist. Staffordsh. Potteries iv. 105 The common people of the district at the present day, call Irish *Tub Butter, Pot Butter.
1880Spons' Encycl. Manuf. 574 Japanese camphor..is also known as ‘Dutch’, or ‘*tub’ camphor,..from its being imported to Europe in tubs covered with matting, each placed within a second tub.
1899Baring-Gould Bk. of West II. 275 The ‘*tub-carriers’, who conveyed the kegs on their backs.
1906Daily Chron. 26 Sept. 4/4 Three little girls..clambering and pushing their way into the *tub-cart.
1839Mrs. Carlyle Lett., to Mrs. Welsh 7 Apr. (1903) I. 76 Carlyle in his grey plaid suit, and his *tub-chair. 1847― Lett. (1883) II. 20 In a tub-chair—a little live bundle of flannel shawls.
1818Scott Br. Lamm. xii, The devil's in the peddling *tub-coopering carle!
1909Philad. Public Ledger 24 June 5/1 (Advt.) Women's and Misses' Stylish *Tub Dresses.
a1704T. Brown Wks. (1730) IV. 199 Faith and Reason.., as has been judiciously observ'd by the fam'd *Tub-drubber of Covent Garden, can never be brought to set their Horses together.
1533MS. Rawl. D. 776 lf. 170 For ij *Tubb Eares of woode sett on the same tubbe.
1901Daily News 22 Feb. 5/1 The boats used in these novice races are clinker built... They are outrigged, but have fixed seats. At Oxford and Cambridge they are generically known as ‘*tub’ eights.
1542Richmond Wills (Surtees) 30 Two trowes, and a bowtyn ton, and a *tube ende.
1702T. Savery Miner's Friend 55 Your *Tub-Engines, or Chain-Pumps, may draw forth the Water.
1607Shakes. Timon iv. iii. 85 Bring downe Rose-cheekt youth to the *Tubfast, and the Diet.
1820Scoresby Acc. Arctic Reg. II. 176 A man, designated ‘*tub-filler’, with a ladle of copper, was employed in filling a hogshead with chopped blubber.
1668Wilkins Real Char. ii. v. §3. 136 *Tub-fish, Piper. 1769Pennant Zool. III. 233 The Red Gurnard..agrees in its general appearance with the tub fish. 1888Goode Amer. Fishes 304 The Tub-fish, T[rigla] hirundo, is of frequent occurrence on the west coast of Scotland.
1909Westm. Gaz. 1 Feb. 5/2 What we have for some time now called ‘*tub frocks’ are certainly the best for the South.
1974N. Marsh Black as he's Painted i. 62 She spent a good deal of time in the *tub garden at the back of the house.
1904Daily News 9 Aug. 5 A most fascinating article, entitled ‘*Tub-Gardening’.
1836Sir G. Head Home Tour 433, I pursued my journey to Whitehaven, in a covered car, or ‘*tub-gig’, for which vehicle the title of the ‘conveyance’ is generally applied. 1884Froude Carlyle, Life in Lond. xi. I. 316 The brothers went in a steamer from Liverpool to Bangor, and thence to Llanberis, again in a ‘tub-gig’, or Welsh car. 1888Woodgate Boating 72 Lessons in a tub-gig are the best remedies for this fault.
1702T. Savery Miner's Friend 21 As easily learn'd as their driving of a Horse in a *Tub-Gin. Ibid. 57 My Engine..will clear an old work..as readily as your Tub-Gins or Chain-Pumps.
1892Pall Mall G. 24 Oct. 2/3 Hoops, or (as they were called in Queen Anne's time, when they reached their maximum proportions) *tub⁓hoops.
1600Dr. Dodypoll iii. i. in Bullen O. Pl. III. 125 You are a sweet smell-feast, Doctor; that I see. Ile [have] no such *tub-hunters use my house.
1900Speaker 10 Feb. 506/1 The *tub-keeping philosopher..with the Psalmist crying ‘All men are liars’.
1908Rhys Davids Early Buddhism i. 7 When he [Diogenes] lived, like a dog, in his *tub⁓kennel.
1709O. Dykes Eng. Prov. & Refl. (ed. 2) 56 From a Pulpit-Harangue, to a *Tub-Lecture of extemporary Zeal.
1857Ruskin Pol. Econ. Art i. 2 People who..lived in tubs, and used gravely to maintain the superiority of *tub-life to town-life.
1867Morn. Star 12 Apr., The miserable pompes à incendies that do duty in their own streets [Paris]..these weak *tublike structures. 1895W. Wright Palmyra & Zenobia xxix. 371 The tublike turban of the Druzes.
1891Labour Commission Gloss., *Tub Loaders, men who hew at night-time and on other occasions, while the pit is not drawing coals, and fill the empty tubs left in the pit.
1719D'Urfey Pills I. 153 The Tories, and the *Tub-meeters, That roosted near Leadenhall.
1661Gauden Hooker's Eccl. Pol. Ded. 4 Those club-masters and *tub-ministers, who sought..to overthrow the ancient and goodly fabric of this church and kingdom.
1849C. Brontë Shirley viii, ‘The Rev. Moses Barraclough: t' *tub orator’... ‘Ah!’ said the Rector..‘He's a tailor by trade’.
1845E. J. Wakefield Adventure N.Z. I. xi. 318 The common men have nothing to do but to ply their oars according to orders; except one, called the tub oarsman, who sits next to the tub containing the whale-line, and has to see that no entanglement takes place.
1870Daily News 11 Feb., The president..had Messrs. Moss, Burgess, Payne, Baker, Mirehouse, and Lewis out in ‘*tub’ pairs, a mode of improvement which had been generally found very beneficial to the individual members of the crew.
1839Ure Dict. Arts 973 The upper ends of the first set of *tub-planks being cut square and level all round the second spiking crib..is fixed.
1801Jefferson Writ. (1830) III. 455 The poor arts of *tub-plots, &c. were repeated till the designs of the party became suspected.
a1791Wesley Wks. (1872) VIII. 332 Let there be no..*tub-pulpit, but a square projection, with a long seat behind.
1903Sir W. J. Farrar in Mem. Abp. Temple (1906) I. vi. 86, I don't think Temple joined in the attempted *tub-race.
1874Knight Dict. Mech., Cylindrical Saw..is variously called a *tub-saw, drum-saw, barrel-saw.
1888F. G. Lee in Archæologia LI. 363 A circular *tub-shaped font.
1880J. Dunbar Pract. Papermaker 55 *Tub-sizing, preparation of the gelatine. 1887Harper's Mag. June 124/2 If paper is to be ‘*tub-sized’ as well as ‘engine-sized’, an animal size..is mixed with dissolved alum and placed in a tub or vat, through which the web of paper is run after leaving the first set of driers. a1912Tub-sized [see A.T.S. s.v. A III]. 1967E. Chambers Photolitho Offset xvi. 250 Surfaced-sized or tub-sized paper is made by passing the moist paper (15–18% moisture) through a trough containing starch solution.
1909Philad. Public Ledger 24 June 7/7 (Advt.) ‘*Tub’ Skirts..Nice quality linen in white, tan & blue.
1595Gosson Quippes Upst. Gentlew. 161 in Hazl. E.P.P. IV. 257 Therefore *tub⁓tailes all may rue, That they came from so vile a crue.
1591Knaresb. Wills (Surtees) I. 173 All the *tubbe tymber thatt I have hewene.
1589Hay any Work Title-p., An vnskilfull and a deceytfull *tubtrimmer.
1886C. Scott Sheep-Farming 133 *Tub-washing is sometimes more convenient for small flocks.
1851Greenwell Coal-trade Terms Northumb. & Durh. 7 The small diameter of the *tub wheels. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Tub-wheel, a peculiar kind of wheel to a water-mill.
1660Okie's Lament. 33 A Fat *Tub⁓woman was my Goddesse great of War. 1727Capt. S. Brunt Voy. to Cackl. 34 They carried two Pails a-piece with a Yoke, like our Tub-women.
1815–16Niles' Weekly Register IX. Suppl. 182/2 Many mill owners have laid aside their tub wheels.
▪ II. tub, n.2 Cycling colloq.|tʌb|
[Abbrev. of tubular a. and n.]
= tubular tyre s.v. *tubular a. 1 a.
1978Watson & Gray Penguin Bk. of Bicycle ii. 48 It would be unwise to buy a bicycle ready fitted with tubulars unless you were sure that your local shop sold spare ‘tubs’. 1987Cycling Weekly 17 Sept. 5/1 Three-quarters down the other side, Dunne heard the swish of tubs on tarmac, and looked up as the British champion arrived.
▪ III. tub, v.|tʌb|
[f. prec. n.]
1. trans. To bathe or wash in a tub or bath. colloq.
1610B. Jonson Alch. iv. iii, In your bathada You shall be sok'd, and strok'd, and tub'd, and rub'd. 1883G. H. Boughton in Harper's Mag. Apr. 700/1 She was ‘tubbing’ the two babies.
b. intr. To wash oneself in a tub or bath; to take a tub or bath, esp. on rising. colloq.
1867Pall Mall G. No. 708. 1722/2 Gentlemen who didn't tub of a morning. 1885C. H. Eden G. Donnington ii, It was necessary..to tub and dress by the feeble flame of a single candle.
2. trans. To line (a pit-shaft) with a water-tight casing of timber, masonry, or iron; to dam back (water) in a shaft or tunnel in this way; to shut off (watery strata or seams) from the shaft with tubbing.
1812J. Hodgson in J. Raine Mem. (1857) I. 94 The low⁓main coal is kept perfectly dry by tubbing the watery seams with a circular casing of oak wood. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 972 When several fathoms of the strata must be tubbed, in order to stop up the water-flow. 1862Chamb. Jrnl. 5 Apr. 217/1 The shaft..is built round with brick at the top and bottom, while the rest of the way is ‘tubbed’ with long planks placed perpendicularly round the sides. 1865Jevons Coal-Question (1866) 68 When this flood of water..had been ‘tubbed back’. 1881Sands Sk. Tranent i. 17 The Coal Company offered to ‘tub’ or line the faulty pit with iron plates. 1884tr. Lotze's Logic viii. 359 Men who are tubbing a well with masonry.
3. To put or pack in a tub; to plant in a tub.
1828T. Hook Hum. Wks., Fashionable Parties (1873) 322 Drawing rooms at ninety-six, and half-a-score sickly orange⁓trees tubbed on the top of a staircase. 1889Daily News 29 June 6/3 As soon as the grower finds it won't pay him to send all his strawberries to market for table use, he begins to pick them and tub them, and sell them by the ton to the jam maker.
b. To soak (bricks) in a tub before setting or laying them.
1913Daily News 31 Mar. 6 The walls..were built in cement mortar and the bricks properly tubbed.
4. trans. and intr. To coach (oarsmen) in a ‘tub’; to practise rowing in a ‘tub’ (tub n. 3). Rowing slang.
1882Society 18 Nov. 7/2 ‘Tubbing’ vigorously, with the..intention of putting on a boat for the Lent races. 1883in Standard 17 Jan. 3/7 An hour and a half was then spent in tubbing the men. 1887Daily News 28 Jan. 3/6 Proceedings commenced..by Mr. Orde tubbing the [men] in the gig pair.
Hence tubbed |tʌbd| ppl. a.
1882Sala Amer. Revis. (1885) 250 Our pickled or ‘tubbed’ pork. 1890J. Hatton By Order of Czar iii. iii, A courtyard..gay with tubbed laurel and tented tables. |