| 单词 | poss-tub |
| 释义 | > as lemmasposs-tub poss-tub n. a large tub in which clothes, etc., are beaten in order to make them clean; cf. possing tub n. at possing n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > vessel for washing clothes in wash-bowla1529 buck1530 boyne1532 washing-tub1560 wash-tub1602 bucking-tub1615 buck-vat1620 washing-bowl1622 swill1624 possing tub1659 suds-tub1805 bucking-vat1822 bucking-keir1823 peggy tub1823 poss-tub1829 pounding barrel1853 posskit1855 wash-boiler1875 washpot1926 1829 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words (new ed.) 166 Poss, to dash clothes violently in water. ‘To poss clothes’—‘A poss tub’. 1894 Westm. Gaz. 26 Sept. 1/3 That her intelligence would have soared far beyond the pounding of dirty linen in ‘poss’ tubs. 1985 New Scientist 9 May 47/4 Hot water was transferred to a ‘posstub’ and the boiler refilled. Clothes had to be boiled, scrubbed with hard green soap, ‘possed’ (agitated by thumping a heavy wood or metal pole on top of them), rinsed, [etc.]. 1994 C. Cookson Tinker's Girl i. i. 27 Facing her was a mangle and a poss-tub, together with a poss-stick. < as lemmas |
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