tubn.¹

Brit.

/tʌb/, U.S.

/təb/

Forms: Middle English–1600s tubbe, Middle English–1500s tobbe, Middle English–1600s tob, 1500s toubbe, tube, toob (also 1800s dialect), 1500s–1600s tubb, 1500s– tub.

Etymology: Middle English tubbe = Middle Dutch, Middle Low German tubbe, tobbe, Dutch and Middle Flemish tobbe, Flemish tubbe (ü), tibbe, West Frisian tobbe, Low German, and East Frisian tubbe.

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-tub, butter-tub, kneading-tub, wash-tub, etc.: see these words. Also loosely applied to a butt, barrel, or cask.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > tub > [noun]

mealeOE

standa1275

collockc1310

kimnel1335

tub1392

kit14..

kiver1407

cowpe1483

trendle1493

boyne1532

bowie1538

runge1574

standfat1593

turnel1688

1392–3 Early Derby's Exp. (Camden) 224 Pro vasis ligneis..viz. tubbes, trowes, boketes et basketes.

c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Miller's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 435 He..gooth and geteth hym a knedyng trogh And after, a tubbe and a kymelyn.

1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 228 Item, for a lok for the almes tobbe, ij. d.

1496 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 296 For v. tobys.

1509–10 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 269 Paid to a Coper for hopyng of the Tobbys and þe Barelles that longith to the Chirche xvj d.

1526 Dunmow Churchwardens' Accts. (MS) f. 5^v Payde for a toob and ii. bokks to fett watter, vii d.

1531 Lett. & Papers Henry VIII V. 180 For morter toubbis, cowlis, water buckettes,..etc.

1557 in J. P. Earwaker Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1884) 64 iiij Tubbs to salte fleshe in.

1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 3^v Bath his fete in a depe tob.

1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 11 Take tub for a season, take sacke for a shift.

1645 Bp. J. Hall Remedy Discontentm. xvi. 86 Here doe I see a Cynick housed in his Tub, scorning all wealth and state.

1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Devereux II. ii. iv. 75 Diogenes in his tub.

1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby ii. 7 A distorted fir-tree, planted..in a tub.

figurative.1693 Humours & Conversat. 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 n. at Compounds 2; also called (Mother) Cornelius' tub, and allusively powdering-tub. Obsolete.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > other medical equipment > [noun] > sweating-tub

powdering tub1560

tub1594

1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. D^v Mother Cornelius tub why it was lyke hell, he that came into it, neuer came out of it.

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V ii. i. 73 To the powdering tub of infamy, Fetch forth the lazar kite of Cresides kinde, Doll Tear-sheete.

1608 R. Armin Nest of Ninnies sig. E4^v Where they should study in priuate with Diogenes in his Cell, they are with Cornelius in his tub.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 324 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 .

1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. viii. ii. 13 Tub and Chair were the old way of sweating, but [etc.].

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 421/2 He beareth Argent, a Doctors Tub, (otherwise called a Cleansing Tub), Sable; Hooped, Or.

c. Gold-mining. A puddling tub.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for treating ores > [noun] > for washing ore > for gold

scour1619

rocker1828

cradle1833

pan1835

Long Tom1839

Tom1839

wash-bowl1848

gold washer1849

sluice1851

wash-pan1851

tub1853

gold pan1854

mining pan1858

pan mill1869

Tommy1892

1853 E. Clacy Lady's Visit Gold Diggings Austral. 116 Great wooden tubs are filled with the dirt and fresh water.

1859 K. Cornwallis Panorama New World I. 133 The cradle..proved very ineffectual in liberating it [sc. the gold] from the stiff clay..which suggested the use of a puddling tub in its stead.

1864 J. Rogers New Rush ii. 47 Miners' tubs and cradles, left to chance, On the resistless torrent's surface dance.

1869 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 597 These buckets were hoisted up..and their contents emptied into a big tub, where they were puddled.

1884 T. 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.

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the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > specific liquid or dry units > tub as unit

meal1327

tub1706

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Tub of Tea, the Quantity of about 60 Pounds: of Camphire from 56 to 86 Pounds: of Vermilion from 3 to 4 Hundred Weight.

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 391/1 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.)

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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > large for liquor > for spirits

greybeard1751

stand cask1803

tub1835

greyhead1892

1835 F. Marryat Three Cutters ii I made three seizures, besides sweeping up those thirty-seven tubs.

1869 R. M. Ballantyne Deep Down xiv. 180 They do say that the boats~men [coast-guards] are informed about the toobs.

1884 J. C. Egerton Sussex Folk v. 65 This cottage..has..been full of tubs from top to bottom as ever it could hold.

f. colloquial. Applied to a corpulent person.

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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [noun] > fat or plump shape or physique > person having

porknellc1540

porkling1541

porridge belly1580

tallow catch1598

woolsack1598

candle-mine1600

trillibub1600

bauson1607

panguts1617

firkin1630

porker1665

poke pudding1706

pudsy1710

jolluxa1797

fatty1797

fattener1817

rotundity1824

tun-butt1829

stout party1855

pig1858

fatlinga1861

slob1861

bladder of lard1864

butterball1877

lard-bladder1891

jelly-belly1896

tub1897

barrel1909

flop1909

pussy-gut1909

gutbucket1919

Billy Bunter1939

endomorph1940

Fatso1944

slug1959

1897 C. M. Flandrau 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.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > container or package for goods > [noun] > carton

pack1844

carton1906

tub1939

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > ices > [noun] > ice-cream > types or forms of

pistachio ice?1790

iced tea1827

tutti-frutti1834

brown-bread ice1846

vanilla ice1846

vanille ice1846

Neapolitan ice1867

Neapolitan ice cream1868

hokey-pokey1884

strawberry ice cream1890

choc chip1903

horn1908

Tortoni1911

slider1915

choc bar1919

cone1920

Eskimo pie1921

brick1922

brickette1922

Eskimo1922

choc ice1924

cornet1926

briquette1927

gelato1932

ninety-nine1935

wafer1936

fudgicle1938

ripple1939

tub1939

vanilla1955

double dip1965

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?’

1981 P. 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); colloquial or jocularly, a bath; hence, the action or practice of taking a bath, esp. on rising.

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > [noun] > bathing > an act of bathing

bain1484

dip1598

balneum1652

tub1776

bathe1827

shower1836

bogy1849

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > [noun] > bathing > vessel for bathing in

laver1340

washela1375

lavatory1447

baina1492

bath-fatc1540

bathing-tub1583

batha1616

tub1776

Moab1865

bath-tub1869

bath vat1874

bogy1893

1594 H. Plat Jewell House 94 The room would be close wherin you place your bathing tub.]

1776 H. 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.

1849 Knife & Fork 11 They..have an hereditary aversion for the Saturday tub.

1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. iii. 41 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 Garden 251 I must have been prior to the date of the institution of the tub.

1893 A. 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 n., tub-pair n. at Compounds 2, tub v. 4.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel with reference to qualities or attributes > [noun] > with reference to behaviour at sea > slow and clumsy

tuba1618

scow1891

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels propelled by oars or poles > [noun] > rowing boat > light or racing > stout and roomy or used for practice

tub-gig1836

tub1853

tub-pair1870

tub-eight1901

a1618 W. Raleigh Disc. Invention Shipping 9 in Judicious & Select Ess. (1650) In Cæsars time, the French Brittains..had very untoward Tubs in which they made Warre against him.

1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Odysses iv. 54 And now my Child at Sea is in a Tub.

1812 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. (ed. 2) I. ii. iv. 94 Here the rapid tide..seizing on the gallant tub.., hurried it forward with a velocity unparalleled in a Dutch boat, navigated by Dutchmen.

1827 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 21 398 One was four feet broader, another was as much shorter than the Victory, and they were in comparison all Tubs.

1841 J. 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’ Adventures Mr. Verdant Green x. 95 He next day..made his first essay in a ‘tub’.

1901 D. B. Hall & 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 n., tub-thumper n.

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society > faith > artefacts > furniture > lectern or pulpit > [noun]

lecternc1325

pulpitc1390

desk1449

stage1483

anabathur1623

oratorio1631

ambo1641

tub1644

chair1649

anabathrum1658

minbar1682

ambon1683

hand board1734

rostrum1755

tub-pulpita1791

lutrin1837

prayer desk1843

wood1854

praying desk1906

1644 J. Owen Duty of Pastors & People viii. 52 Must a master of a family, cease praying in his family,..for feare of being counted a Preacher in a Tub?

1684 J. Dryden Prol. Univ. Oxf. in Misc. Poems 278 Jack Presbyter shall here Erect his Throne. Knock out a Tub with Preaching once a day.

1710 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1886) II. 351 A huge Bonfire was made, and the Tub in w^ch he used to hold forth was plac'd on y^e top of the Pile.

1729 A. Pope Dunciad (new ed.) ii. 2 A gorgeous seat, that far outshone Henley's gilt Tub, or Fleckno's Irish Throne.

1891 Spectator 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 n.¹ 2, tram n.² 2.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > equipment for lowering or raising miners or material > for raising material

corf1831

tub1849

skep1860

raff wheel1867

1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 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.

1859 R. 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.

1893 Athenæum 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.

1894 Heslop (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.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > pit supports

yoking1653

set1830

crib1839

tub1839

wedging crib1839

cribbing1841

ring crib1849

tack1849

tymp1883

1839 [see tub-plank n. at Compounds 1a].

1850 J. Weale Rudim. Dict. Terms Archit. iv. 474/2 Tub, a cast-iron cylinder put in the shaft instead of bricking.

1855 Orr's Circle Sci., Inorg. Nat. 237 In all cases, the foundation of a permanent tub should rest on a water-tight stratum.

1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Tub,..a casing of wood or of cast-iron sections..lining a shaft.

†a. On the early railways colloquially applied to an open truck or a seatless carriage. Obsolete.

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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > open wagon

truck1838

tub1886

1886 H. S. Brown Autobiogr. (1887) vii. 30 We called it a ‘stand up’ and it also went by the name of ‘a tub’.

1890 Notes & Queries 7th Ser. 9 470/2 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. Obsolete.

c. ? = tub-gig n. (a) at Compounds 2.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > covered

tub1889

1889 John Bull 2 Mar. 142/2 Tubs we ca' the covered carriages, tubs wasn't known in these parts.

1911 F. Harrison Autobiogr. 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.

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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > extinguishing fire > [noun] > fire-fighting > a substance or apparatus for extinguishing > fire-engine

fire engine1626

engine1645

water engine1667

machine1848

fire truck1855

forcing-engine1855

tub1864

appliance1865

1864 Student & Schoolmate Jan. 3 The rope was only half manned and wishing to make myself useful..I joined the party in charge of the ‘tub’.

1906 J. 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).

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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > picking pockets > pick pockets [verb (intransitive)] > on buses or at bus-stops

to work the tubs1929

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > public service vehicle > [noun] > omnibus

omnibus1829

bus1832

shillibeerc1835

stage1853

tub1929

1929 G. 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.

1933 C. E. Leach On Top of Underworld x. 141 Tub, omnibus.

1974 P. Wright Lang. Brit. Industry x. 85 Inland transport comes along with tubs for buses.

7. Nautical. See quot. 1867.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > rope for raising or lowering sails > rack for coiling topsail halyard in

tub1867

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher 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 n. at Compounds 2.Couch takes this as a contraction of Cornish tubbot, -ut.

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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Scorpaeniformes (scorpion-fish) > [noun] > family Triglidae (gurnards) > genus Trigla > trigla hirundo (tub)

tub1602

tub-fish1668

1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 32 Of flat [fish there are] Brets, Turbets, Dories,..Tub, Breame &c.

1836 W. Yarrell Hist. 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.

1861 Act 24 & 25 Victoria c. 109 §4 All migratory fish of the genus salmon,..salmon,..buntling, guiniad, tubs, yellow fin, sprod, herling,..or..any other local name.

1863 Rep. 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. Obsolete.

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1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 371/2 Consider the places & his wordes together, & ye shal find al his processe therin a fayre tale of a Tub.

1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 576/1 Thys is a fayre tale of a tubbe tolde vs of hys electes.

1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. ix. sig. L^v A tale of a tub, your tale no truthe auowth.

1631 F. Lenton Characterismi sig. F9^v Oft-times hee goes but to the next Tauerne, and then very discreetly brings her home a tale of a Tubbe.

1708 O. Dykes Moral Reflexions Eng. Prov. 57 If one talks of Chalk, another will talk of Cheese still, or tell a Tale of a Tub.

1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 102 Having entertained the Fellow with a Tale of a Tub.

b. (to throw out) a tub to the whale, to create a diversion, esp. in order to escape a threatened danger.

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1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub 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.

1730 Fog's Weekly Jrnl. 29 Aug. 1/1 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.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. x. 77 When a man talks to a lady upon such subjects,..'tis strange, if he cannot throw out a tub to the whale.

1768 Earl of Malmesbury Diaries & Corr. I. 23 We find it a mere tub to amuse the whale.

1826 J. Doyle Ess. Catholic Claims 248 Some tub for a whale of prejudice to knash its teeth against.

1912 Nation 29 June 465/2 He throws a tub to the High Church whale.

c. every tub must (or let every tub) stand on its own bottom: cf. bottom n. and adj. Phrases 3.

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1623 R. Aylett Ioseph v. 74 Such like tubs on their owne bottome stand, Nor neede the least support of others hand.

1736 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum (ed. 2) (at cited word) Every Tub must stand upon it's own Bottom.

1773 R. Graves Spiritual Quixote I. iv. viii. 232 [Mrs. Tantrum]..concluded, in her own way, that ‘every tub must stand upon its own bottom’.

1885 ‘H. Conway’ Family Affair III. vi. 88 I think it's better to let every tub stand on its own bottom.

1993 H. N. Thomas Spirits in Dark (1994) xviii. 214 I know the Old Testament tell us that the sins o' the fathers get visited on the children, but yo' mustn' have a hand in that. Let ‘every tub must sit 'pon its own bottom.’

Compounds

C1.

a. General attributive.

tub-bath n.

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1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 850 Each patient receives a tub-bath of twenty minutes at 70° every third hour.

tub-boat n.

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1883 Brit. Q. Rev. July 108 Crossing the narrow water-way in one of the heavy tub-boats of the country.

tub-ear n. (ear n.¹ 7).

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1533 MS. Rawl. D. 776 lf. 170 For ij Tubb Eares of woode sett on the same tubbe.

tub-eight n. (eight n. 2b).

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels propelled by oars or poles > [noun] > rowing boat > light or racing > stout and roomy or used for practice

tub-gig1836

tub1853

tub-pair1870

tub-eight1901

1901 Daily 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.

tub-end n.

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1542 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 30 Two trowes, and a bowtyn ton, and a tube ende.

tub-hoop n. (in quot. transferred).

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [noun] > contrivance for expanding skirts > hoop

hoop1548

farthingale1552

vardingale1552

roundabouta1555

ferdegewa1556

verdugal1558

guard-infante1670

crinoline1847

tub-hoop1892

1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 24 Oct. 2/3 Hoops, or (as they were called in Queen Anne's time, when they reached their maximum proportions) tub~hoops.

tub-kennel n.

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1908 T. W. Rhys Davids Early Buddhism i. 7 When he [Diogenes] lived, like a dog, in his tub~kennel.

tub-life n.

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1857 J. Ruskin Polit. Econ. Art i. 2 People who..lived in tubs, and used gravely to maintain the superiority of tub-life to town-life.

tub-plank n.

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1839 A. Ure 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.

tub-plant n.

tub-pulpit n.

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society > faith > artefacts > furniture > lectern or pulpit > [noun]

lecternc1325

pulpitc1390

desk1449

stage1483

anabathur1623

oratorio1631

ambo1641

tub1644

chair1649

anabathrum1658

minbar1682

ambon1683

hand board1734

rostrum1755

tub-pulpita1791

lutrin1837

prayer desk1843

wood1854

praying desk1906

a1791 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) VIII. 332 Let there be no..tub-pulpit, but a square projection, with a long seat behind.

tub-timber n.

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1591 in F. Collins Wills & Admin. Knaresborough Court Rolls (1902) I. 173 All the tubbe tymber thatt I have hewene.

tub-washing n.

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1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 133 Tub-washing is sometimes more convenient for small flocks.

b. Objective.

(a)

tub-buyer n.

tub-carrier n.

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1899 S. Baring-Gould Bk. of West II. 275 The ‘tub-carriers’, who conveyed the kegs on their backs.

tub-filler n.

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1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 176 A man, designated ‘tub-filler’, with a ladle of copper, was employed in filling a hogshead with chopped blubber.

tub-maker n.

(b) (In sense 4.)

tub-lecture n.

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1708 O. Dykes Moral Reflexions Eng. Prov. 56 From a Pulpit-Harangue, to a Tub-Lecture of extemporary Zeal.

tub-meeter n.

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1706 in H. Playford Wit & Mirth (new ed.) IV. 42 The Tories, and the Tubmeeters, That roosted near Leaden-Hall.

tub-minister n.

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the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > one who makes a speech or speeches

ditera1387

fair speakera1398

speakerc1400

pronouncer?a1425

orator?a1439

oratrice1565

oratress1587

rhetor1588

oratrix?1592

tongue-man1594

tonguesman1596

public speaker1646

holder-forth1661

tub-minister1662

spokesman1663

addresser1665

tub-drubbera1704

speech-maker1710

speecher1762

orationer1765

speechifiera1777

mob-orator1814

perorator1827

elocutionist1847

tub-orator1849

spokester1850

patterer1851

platformer1851

oratist1860

stem-winder1875

addressor1897

pep talker1925

1662 J. Gauden in R. Hooker Wks. Ep. Ded. sig. A3^v Those Club-masters and Tub-ministers, who sought..to overthrow the ancient and goodly Fabrick of this Church and Kingdom.

tub-orator n.

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the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > one who makes a speech or speeches

ditera1387

fair speakera1398

speakerc1400

pronouncer?a1425

orator?a1439

oratrice1565

oratress1587

rhetor1588

oratrix?1592

tongue-man1594

tonguesman1596

public speaker1646

holder-forth1661

tub-minister1662

spokesman1663

addresser1665

tub-drubbera1704

speech-maker1710

speecher1762

orationer1765

speechifiera1777

mob-orator1814

perorator1827

elocutionist1847

tub-orator1849

spokester1850

patterer1851

platformer1851

oratist1860

stem-winder1875

addressor1897

pep talker1925

1849 C. Brontë Shirley I. viii. 181 ‘The Rev. Moses Barraclough: t' tub orator’... ‘Ah!’ said the Rector..‘He's a tailor by trade’.

tub-bellied adj.

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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [adjective] > having a round or protuberant belly

round-barrelled1682

tub-bellied1830

1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 454 Before the South Down sheep were improved, they were very flat on the ribs, or tub bellied.

tub-brained adj.

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the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > narrow-mindedness > [adjective]

narrowed1599

narrow-minded1611

narrow1612

small1619

narrow1622

tub-brained1634

narrow-souled1641

narrow-spirited1645

narrow-compassed1647

illiberal1649

cat-witted1672

stingy1694

little-minded1707

straitened1712

unenlarged1741

contracted1765

one-eyed1779

unliberalized1793

nippit1808

small-minded1811

narrow-brained1835

narrow visioned1853

thin-minded1862

narrow-gauge1872

one-track1900

narrow-gutted1903

tunnel-visioned1968

1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect To Rdr. sig. A3 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.

tub-coopering adj.

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1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor xi, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. I. 307 The deil's in the pedling tub-coopering carle!

tub-keeping adj.

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1900 Speaker 10 Feb. 506/1 The tub-keeping philosopher..with the Psalmist crying ‘All men are liars’.

tub-like adj.

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1867 Morning Star 12 Apr. The miserable pompes à incendies that do duty in their own streets [Paris]..these weak tublike structures.

1895 W. Wright Palmyra & Zenobia xxix. 371 The tublike turban of the Druzes.

tub-shaped adj.

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1888 F. G. Lee in Archaeologia 51 363 A circular tub-shaped font.

C2. See also tubman n., tub-preacher n., tub-thumper n., etc.

tub-bass n. a bass string instrument made from a tub.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [noun] > double-bass > made from tub

tub-bass1958

wash-tub1968

1958 P. 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.

tub-butter n. butter packed in tubs for keeping or export.

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1829 S. Shaw Hist. Staffs. Potteries iv. 105 The common people of the district at the present day, call Irish Tub Butter, Pot Butter.

tub-camphor n. camphor imported in tubs (from Japan).

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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > extracted or refined oil > [noun] > camphor

camphor1313

Sumatra camphora1760

Borneo camphora1811

Malay camphor1837

turpentine camphor1857

tub-camphor1880

Japan camphor1882

Japanese camphor-

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > medicine composed of a plant > [noun] > general plant-derived medicines

savineOE

liquoricec1275

verjuice1302

sandragon1334

sugar roset1363

acaciaa1398

agnus castusa1398

sebestenc1400

socotrine aloesa1425

tapsimelc1425

valencec1425

aconitum?a1450

hypericum1471

cassia1543

guaiacum1553

guaiac1558

butcher's broom1578

solanum1578

liquorice-stick1580

symphonia1597

tabasheer1598

diascord1605

orange-bead1626

oxymel of squills1654

Japonic earth1673

terebinthina1693

terebinthinate1696

pareira brava1698

rhabarbarate1716

Japan earth1718

buglossate1725

squill1725

phytolacca1730

nettle juice1747

xanthoxyloïn1767

mustard whey1769

Jesuits' drops1783

digitalis1785

arnica1788

mel-rose1790

gallic acid1791

valerian1794

sacred elixir1797

drosera1801

Spanish juice1803

mudar1819

sabadilla1821

parillin1825

mudarin1829

salicin1830

sang1843

peppermint camphor1854

pareira1855

savanilla1856

euonymin1862

menthol1862

phytolaccin1864

alstonia1868

agoniadin1870

guimauve1870

gelsemium1875

iridin1879

hazeline1880

tub-camphor1880

echinacea1887

jacaranda1887

hamamelin1890

quillain1890

vieirin1893

thiolin1894

mentha camphor1902

hamamelis1910

phytohaemagglutinin1949

adaptogen1966

1880 Spons' 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.

tub-cart n. = tub-gig n. (a).

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > with seats facing each other > two-wheeled

tub-gig1836

governess car1883

governess cart1884

tub-cart1906

1906 Daily Chron. 26 Sept. 4/4 Three little girls..clambering and pushing their way into the tub-cart.

tub-chair n. a deep semicircular chair resembling a tub.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > other chairs

farthingale chair1552

side chair1582

high chair1609

scroll chair1614

Turkey chair1683

curule chair1695

reading chair1745

rush-bottom1754

conversation-chair1793

Windsor tub1800

Trafalgar chair1808

beehive-chair1816

nursing chair1826

Hitchcockc1828

toilet seat1829

kangaroo1834

prie-dieu1838

tub-chair1839

barrel-chair1850

Cromwell chair1868

office chair1874

swivel-chair1885

steamer-chair1886

suggan chair1888

lawn chair1895

saddle seat1895

Bombay chair1896

veranda-chair1902

X chair1904

Yorkshire chair1906

three legs and a swinger1916

saddlebag1919

riempie stool1933

gaspipe chair1934

slipper chair1938

Eames chair1946

contour chair1948

sling-back1948

sling chair1957

booster chair1960

booster seat1967

beanbag1969

sack chair1970

papasan1980

Muskoka chair1987

1839 J. W. Carlyle Let. to Mrs. Welsh in Lett. 7 Apr. (1903) I. 76 Carlyle in his grey plaid suit, and his tub-chair.

1847 J. W. Carlyle Lett. (1883) II. 20 In a tub-chair—a little live bundle of flannel shawls.

tub-dress n. a dress of washing material: cf. tub-frock n.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > dress, robe, or gown > types of > made of specific material

farandine1672

tabby1726

satin1730

lutestring1756

silk1793

muslinc1794

zephyrine1820

merino1839

mousseline1847

moire1851

velvet1851

tarlatan1852

velveteen1873

tussore1884

paper dress1886

Gloria1895

Tibet1900

tub-dress1909

tub-frock1909

1909 Public Ledger (Philadelphia) 24 June 5/1 (advt.) Women's and Misses' Stylish Tub Dresses.

tub-drubber n. = tub-thumper n.

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the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > one who makes a speech or speeches

ditera1387

fair speakera1398

speakerc1400

pronouncer?a1425

orator?a1439

oratrice1565

oratress1587

rhetor1588

oratrix?1592

tongue-man1594

tonguesman1596

public speaker1646

holder-forth1661

tub-minister1662

spokesman1663

addresser1665

tub-drubbera1704

speech-maker1710

speecher1762

orationer1765

speechifiera1777

mob-orator1814

perorator1827

elocutionist1847

tub-orator1849

spokester1850

patterer1851

platformer1851

oratist1860

stem-winder1875

addressor1897

pep talker1925

a1704 T. Brown To Young Lawyer in 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.

tub-engine n. a contrivance for raising water by means of a chain of tubs or the like.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > for raising water

well bucket1477

flail?a1500

kettle-mill1570

scoop1580

water engine1611

chain-pumpa1618

cochlea1648

water-screw1648

engine1652

bucket-fountain1663

chain1682

noria1696

tub-engine1702

tub-gin1702

well-pole1727

screw engine1729

rag1747

rag pump1747

swape1773

picotah1780

water balance1800

ram1801

well sweep1818

shadoof1836

hydraulic belt1856

water carrier1875

bailer1883

trip-bucket1926

1702 T. Savery Miner's Friend 55 Your Tub-Engines, or Chain-Pumps, may draw forth the Water.

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tub-fake n. (fake n.¹) the coiled tow-line in the line-tub of a whale-boat ( Cent. Dict. 1891 cites J. W. Collins).

† tub-fast n. Obsolete abstinence during treatment in the sweating-tub: cf. 1b.

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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > fasting > [noun] > a fast > fast during medical treatment

tub-fasta1616

a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iv. iii. 88 Bring downe Rose-cheekt youth to the Tubfast [1623, 1632 Fubfast, amendment proposed by Warburton], and the Diet.

tub-fish n. = sense 8.

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tub1602

tub-fish1668

1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. v. §3. 136 Tub-fish, Piper.

1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 233 The Red Gurnard..agrees in its general appearance with the tub fish.

1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 304 The Tub-fish, T[rigla] hirundo, is of frequent occurrence on the west coast of Scotland.

tub-frock n. = tub-dress n.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > dress, robe, or gown > types of > made of specific material

farandine1672

tabby1726

satin1730

lutestring1756

silk1793

muslinc1794

zephyrine1820

merino1839

mousseline1847

moire1851

velvet1851

tarlatan1852

velveteen1873

tussore1884

paper dress1886

Gloria1895

Tibet1900

tub-dress1909

tub-frock1909

1909 Westm. Gaz. 1 Feb. 5/2 What we have for some time now called ‘tub frocks’ are certainly the best for the South.

tub garden n. an area containing plants grown in tubs.

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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > [noun] > other types of garden

grounda1500

knot-garden1519

back-garden1535

summer garden1589

spring garden1612

spring gardena1625

water gardena1626

walled gardena1631

wildernessa1644

window garden1649

botanic garden1662

Hanging Gardens1705

winter garden1736

cottage garden1765

Vauxhall1770

English garden1771

wall garden1780

chinampa1787

moat garden1826

gardenesque1832

sunk garden1835

roof garden1844

weedery1847

wild garden1852

rootery1855

beer-garden1863

Japanese garden1863

bog-garden1883

Italian garden1883

community garden1884

sink garden1894

trough garden1935

sand garden1936

Zen garden1937

hydroponicum1938

tub garden1974

rain garden1994

1974 N. 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.

tub-gardening n. cultivation of plants or trees in tubs.

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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > [noun] > types of gardening

curtilagec1430

kitchen gardening?1700

landscape-gardeninga1763

picturesque gardeninga1763

window gardening1801

landscape architecture1840

rock gardening1840

market gardening1852

water gardening1870

wild gardening1870

olericulture1886

market work1887

trucking1897

tub-gardening1904

landscaping1930

greenswardsmanship1936

godwottery1937

sand gardening1960

xeriscaping1987

1904 Daily News 9 Aug. 5 A most fascinating article, entitled ‘Tub-Gardening’.

tub-gig n. (a) a deep low-hung gig with rounded corners and seats facing inwards; a governess car; (b) = tub-pair n.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels propelled by oars or poles > [noun] > rowing boat > light or racing > stout and roomy or used for practice

tub-gig1836

tub1853

tub-pair1870

tub-eight1901

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > with seats facing each other > two-wheeled

tub-gig1836

governess car1883

governess cart1884

tub-cart1906

1836 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.

1884 J. A. Froude T. Carlyle: Life in London I. xi. 316 The brothers went in a steamer from Liverpool to Bangor, and thence to Llanberis, again in a ‘tub-gig’, or Welsh car.

1888 W. B. Woodgate Boating (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 72 Lessons in a tub-gig are the best remedies for this fault.

tub-gin n. = tub-engine n.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > for raising water

well bucket1477

flail?a1500

kettle-mill1570

scoop1580

water engine1611

chain-pumpa1618

cochlea1648

water-screw1648

engine1652

bucket-fountain1663

chain1682

noria1696

tub-engine1702

tub-gin1702

well-pole1727

screw engine1729

rag1747

rag pump1747

swape1773

picotah1780

water balance1800

ram1801

well sweep1818

shadoof1836

hydraulic belt1856

water carrier1875

bailer1883

trip-bucket1926

1702 T. Savery Miner's Friend 21 As easily learn'd as their driving of a Horse in a Tub-Gin.

1702 T. Savery Miner's Friend 57 My Engine..will clear an old work..as readily as your Tub-Gins or Chain-Pumps.

† tub-hunter n. Obsolete a parasite, a sponger.

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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [noun] > servile flatterer > parasite

clienta1393

lick-dishc1440

maunche present1440

scambler?a1513

smell-feast1519

parasite1539

hanger-on1549

parasitaster1552

waiter at the table1552

lick-trencher1571

hang-by1579

shadow1579

trencher-fly1590

trencher-friend1590

fawnguest1592

pot-hunter1592

lick-spigot1599

trencherman1599

shark1600

tub-hunter1600

zany1601

lick-box1611

by-hangera1626

cosherer1634

shirk1639

panlicker1641

clientelary1655

tantony1659

led friend1672

sponger1677

fetcher and carrier1751

myrmidon1800

trencher-licker1814

onhanger1821

tag-tail1835

sponge1838

lick-ladle1849

lick-platter1853

sucker1856

freeloader1933

bludger1938

ligger1977

joyrider1990

1600 Wisdome Doctor Dodypoll iii. sig. D3^v You are a sweet smell-feast, Doctor that I see, Ile [have] no such tub-hunters vse my house.

tub-loader n. Coal Mining see quot.

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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > coal-miner > who works with trams, tubs, etc.

coal putter1708

foal1770

onsetter1789

putter1812

headsman1813

trapper1815

thruster1825

trammer1839

train boy1852

tram1856

hanger-on1858

tipper1861

hooker-on?1881

jiggerer?1881

hitcher1890

tub-loader1891

haulier1892

tilter1892

unhooker1892

flatter1894

jagger1900

thrutcher1901

tram-boy1904

filler1921

1891 Labour 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.

tub-oar n. the oar next the line-tub in a whale-boat.

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1834 N. Amer. Mag. July 170 The boatsteerer..seized hold of the line, and, in a twinkling, caught a turn around the loggerhead, to enable the man at the tub oar to bend on another line.

tub-oarsman n. one who attends to the running of the line when in use ( Cent. Dict. 1891).

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society > occupation and work > industry > whaling and seal-hunting > whaling > whale-hunter > [noun] > helper

tonguer1836

tub-oarsman1845

1845 E. J. Wakefield Adventure in 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.

tub-pair n. a pair-oared practice boat (College slang).

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels propelled by oars or poles > [noun] > rowing boat > light or racing > stout and roomy or used for practice

tub-gig1836

tub1853

tub-pair1870

tub-eight1901

1870 Daily 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.

tub-plot n. cf. Meal-tub Plot n. at meal-tub n.

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1801 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) III. 455 The poor arts of tub-plots, &c. were repeated till the designs of the party became suspected.

tub-race n. a race in which the competitors use tubs instead of boats.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > boat racing or race > [noun] > types of rowing race

torpid1838

bumping race1842

row-over1866

sculls1878

May1879

Lents1886

fours1891

getting-on race1892

row-off1893

re-row1901

tub-race1903

bumper1906

bump1923

bumps race1927

head race1953

1903 Sir W. J. Farrar in Mem. Abp. Temple (1906) I. vi. 86 I don't think Temple joined in the attempted tub-race.

tub-saw n. a cylindrical saw.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > saw > [noun] > other saws

handsaw1399

rug-saw1582

frame saw1633

nocksaw1659

bow-saw1678

lock saw1688

stadda1688

wire saw1688

panel saw1754

keyhole saw1761

web saw1799

table saw1832

rack saw1846

scroll-saw1851

fretsaw1865

back saw1874

foxtail-saw1874

tub-saw1874

gullet-saw1875

Swede saw1934

1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 672/1 Variously called a tub-saw, drum-saw, barrel-saw.

tub-size v. (transitive) to size (paper) in a tub or vat; to hand-size, as distinguished from engine-size.

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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > paper-making > make paper [verb (transitive)] > specific processes

planish1361

calender1513

couch1751

watermarkc1800

part1809

satin1839

re-reel1860

to break in1865

hot press1875

tub-size1880

reslush1938

1880 J. Dunbar Pract. Papermaker 55 Tub-sizing, preparation of the gelatine.

1887 Harper'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.

tub-sized adj.

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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > paper > [adjective] > processed or finished in specific way

animal-sized1860

calendered1878

Willesden1879

machine-finished1892

mould-made1895

friction-glazed1907

tub-sized?1912

machine-glazed1914

?1912 Printing Papers (Spalding & Hodge) ii. 1 Animal Tub-sized, or A.T.S., is a term employed to denote the more costly method of passing the manufactured sheet through a bath or ‘tub’ of animal size.

1967 E. 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.

tub-skirt n. cf. tub-dress n.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > clothing for lower body > skirt > types of > made from specific material > other

futah1738

petticoat trousers1749

pareu1769

sisi1810

petticoat1814

grass skirt1875

tub-skirt1909

piupiu1938

cuddle skirt1958

1909 Public Ledger (Philadelphia) 24 June 7/7 (advt.) ‘Tub’ Skirts..Nice quality linen in white, tan & blue.

tub-sugar n. sugar packed in chests and covered with fine clay ( Cent. Dict. 1891).

tub-suit n. = tub-skirt n.

† tub-tail n. Obsolete a farthingale or hooped skirt; one who wears this (contemptuous).

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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > unchaste behaviour of woman > unchaste or loose woman

queanOE

whorec1175

malkinc1275

wenchelc1300

ribalda1350

strumpeta1350

wench1362

filtha1375

parnelc1390

sinner14..

callet1415

slut?c1425

tickle-tailc1430

harlot?a1475

mignote1489

kittock?a1500

mulea1513

trulla1516

trully?1515

danta1529

miswoman1528

stewed whore1532

Tib1533

unchaghe1534

flag1535

Katy1535

jillet1541

yaud1545

housewife1546

trinkletc1550

whippet1550

Canace1551

filthy1553

Jezebel1558

kittyc1560

loonc1560

laced mutton1563

nymph1563

limmer1566

tomboy1566

Marian1567

mort1567

cockatrice1568

franion1571

blowze1573

rannell1573

rig1575

Kita1577

poplet1577

light-skirts1578

pucelle1578

harlotry1584

light o' lovea1586

driggle-draggle1588

wagtail1592

tub-tail1595

flirt-gill1597

minx1598

hilding1599

short-heels1599

bona-roba1600

flirt1600

Hiren1600

light-heels1602

roba1602

baggage1603

cousin1604

fricatrice1607

rumbelow1611

amorosa1615

jaya1616

open-taila1618

succubus1622

snaphancea1625

flap1631

buttered bun1638

puffkin1639

vizard1652

fallen woman1659

tomrigg1662

cunt1663

quaedama1670

jilt1672

crack1677

grass-girl1691

sporting girl1694

sportswoman1705

mobbed hood1707

brim1736

trollop1742

trub1746

demi-rep1749

gillyflower1757

lady of easy virtue1766

mot1773

chicken1782

gammerstang1788

buer1807

scarlet woman1816

blowen1819

fie-fie1820

shickster?1834

streel1842

charver1846

trolly1854

bad girl1855

amateur1862

anonyma1862

demi-virgin1864

pickup1871

chippy1885

wish-wife1886

tart1887

tartleta1890

flossy1893

fly girl1893

demi-mondaine1894

floozy1899

slattern1899

scrub1900

demi-vierge1908

cake1909

coozie1912

muff1914

tarty1918

yes-girl1920

radge1923

bike1945

puta1948

messer1951

cooze1955

jamette1965

skeezer1986

slutbag1987

chickenhead1988

ho1988

1595 Pleasant Quippes for Vpstart Gentle-women sig. B^v Therefore tub-tailes all may rue, That they came from so vile a crue.

tub-trimmer n. ? a cooper; in quot. figurative.

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1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Hay any Worke for Cooper (title page) An vnskilfull and a deceytfull tubtrimmer.

tub-wheel n. (a) the wheel of a colliery ‘tub’; (b) a horizontal waterwheel with spiral floats; = danaide n.; (c) a rotating drum in which hides are washed ( Funk's Stand. Dict. 1895).

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society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > equipment for lowering or raising miners or material > for raising material > part of

sole-tree1653

spending1797

tub-wheel1815

rider1881

society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > driven by water

waterwheel1408

flood-wheel1515

breast wheel1744

overshot1760

undershot wheel1760

breast-shot1775

bucket-wheel1797

tub-wheel1815

flutter-wheel1817

danaide1825

wheel1842

reaction waterwheel1847

reaction wheel1852

tide-wheel1864

hurdy-gurdy1868

stream-wheel1875

paddle wheela1884

Pelton1885

turbine-pump1900

1815–16 Niles' Weekly Reg. 9 Suppl. 182/2 Many mill owners have laid aside their tub wheels.

1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 7 The small diameter of the tub wheels.

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Tub-wheel, a peculiar kind of wheel to a water-mill.

tub-woman n. a woman who carries a tub or tubs; also a woman suggesting a tub in figure.

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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [noun] > fat or plump shape or physique > person having > woman

roil1533

boss1578

blowze1594

fustilarian1600

fustilugs1607

tub-woman1660

fuss1670

fussock1699

bundlea1825

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > other manual or industrial workers > [noun] > porter > types of

wine-porter1580

street porter1606

tackle-house porter1606

tackle-porter1607

sealed porter1631

ticket-porter1646

tub-woman1660

keep-door1682

Suisse1763

bamboo-coolie1800

hop-porter1812

plyer1826

night porter1841

fellowship1864

hall-porter1883

mobber1892

redcap1903

badgeman1904

bummaree1954

1660 Col. J. Okie's Lament. (single sheet) A Fat Tub-woman was my Goddesse great of War.

1727 ‘S. Brunt’ Voy. to Cacklogallinia 34 They carried two Pails a-piece with a Yoke, like our Tub-women.

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单词	tub
释义	tubn.¹ Brit. /tʌb/, U.S. /təb/ Forms: Middle English–1600s tubbe, Middle English–1500s tobbe, Middle English–1600s tob, 1500s toubbe, tube, toob (also 1800s dialect), 1500s–1600s tubb, 1500s– tub. Etymology: Middle English tubbe = Middle Dutch, Middle Low German tubbe, tobbe, Dutch and Middle Flemish tobbe, Flemish tubbe (ü), tibbe, West Frisian tobbe, Low German, and East Frisian 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-tub, butter-tub, kneading-tub, wash-tub, etc.: see these words. Also loosely applied to a butt, barrel, or cask. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > tub > [noun] mealeOE standa1275 collockc1310 kimnel1335 tub1392 kit14.. kiver1407 cowpe1483 trendle1493 boyne1532 bowie1538 runge1574 standfat1593 turnel1688 1392–3 Early Derby's Exp. (Camden) 224 Pro vasis ligneis..viz. tubbes, trowes, boketes et basketes. c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Miller's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 435 He..gooth and geteth hym a knedyng trogh And after, a tubbe and a kymelyn. 1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 228 Item, for a lok for the almes tobbe, ij. d. 1496 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 296 For v. tobys. 1509–10 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 269 Paid to a Coper for hopyng of the Tobbys and þe Barelles that longith to the Chirche xvj d. 1526 Dunmow Churchwardens' Accts. (MS) f. 5^v Payde for a toob and ii. bokks to fett watter, vii d. 1531 Lett. & Papers Henry VIII V. 180 For morter toubbis, cowlis, water buckettes,..etc. 1557 in J. P. Earwaker Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1884) 64 iiij Tubbs to salte fleshe in. 1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 3^v Bath his fete in a depe tob. 1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 11 Take tub for a season, take sacke for a shift. 1645 Bp. J. Hall Remedy Discontentm. xvi. 86 Here doe I see a Cynick housed in his Tub, scorning all wealth and state. 1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Devereux II. ii. iv. 75 Diogenes in his tub. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby ii. 7 A distorted fir-tree, planted..in a tub. figurative.1693 Humours & Conversat. 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 n. at Compounds 2; also called (Mother) Cornelius' tub, and allusively powdering-tub. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > other medical equipment > [noun] > sweating-tub powdering tub1560 tub1594 1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. D^v Mother Cornelius tub why it was lyke hell, he that came into it, neuer came out of it. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V ii. i. 73 To the powdering tub of infamy, Fetch forth the lazar kite of Cresides kinde, Doll Tear-sheete. 1608 R. Armin Nest of Ninnies sig. E4^v Where they should study in priuate with Diogenes in his Cell, they are with Cornelius in his tub. a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 324 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 . View more context for this quotation 1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. viii. ii. 13 Tub and Chair were the old way of sweating, but [etc.]. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 421/2 He beareth Argent, a Doctors Tub, (otherwise called a Cleansing Tub), Sable; Hooped, Or. c. Gold-mining. A puddling tub. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for treating ores > [noun] > for washing ore > for gold scour1619 rocker1828 cradle1833 pan1835 Long Tom1839 Tom1839 wash-bowl1848 gold washer1849 sluice1851 wash-pan1851 tub1853 gold pan1854 mining pan1858 pan mill1869 Tommy1892 1853 E. Clacy Lady's Visit Gold Diggings Austral. 116 Great wooden tubs are filled with the dirt and fresh water. 1859 K. Cornwallis Panorama New World I. 133 The cradle..proved very ineffectual in liberating it [sc. the gold] from the stiff clay..which suggested the use of a puddling tub in its stead. 1864 J. Rogers New Rush ii. 47 Miners' tubs and cradles, left to chance, On the resistless torrent's surface dance. 1869 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 597 These buckets were hoisted up..and their contents emptied into a big tub, where they were puddled. 1884 T. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > specific liquid or dry units > tub as unit meal1327 tub1706 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Tub of Tea, the Quantity of about 60 Pounds: of Camphire from 56 to 86 Pounds: of Vermilion from 3 to 4 Hundred Weight. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 391/1 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.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > large for liquor > for spirits greybeard1751 stand cask1803 tub1835 greyhead1892 1835 F. Marryat Three Cutters ii I made three seizures, besides sweeping up those thirty-seven tubs. 1869 R. M. Ballantyne Deep Down xiv. 180 They do say that the boats~men [coast-guards] are informed about the toobs. 1884 J. C. Egerton Sussex Folk v. 65 This cottage..has..been full of tubs from top to bottom as ever it could hold. f. colloquial. Applied to a corpulent person. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [noun] > fat or plump shape or physique > person having porknellc1540 porkling1541 porridge belly1580 tallow catch1598 woolsack1598 candle-mine1600 trillibub1600 bauson1607 panguts1617 firkin1630 porker1665 poke pudding1706 pudsy1710 jolluxa1797 fatty1797 fattener1817 rotundity1824 tun-butt1829 stout party1855 pig1858 fatlinga1861 slob1861 bladder of lard1864 butterball1877 lard-bladder1891 jelly-belly1896 tub1897 barrel1909 flop1909 pussy-gut1909 gutbucket1919 Billy Bunter1939 endomorph1940 Fatso1944 slug1959 1897 C. M. Flandrau 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. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > container or package for goods > [noun] > carton pack1844 carton1906 tub1939 the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > ices > [noun] > ice-cream > types or forms of pistachio ice?1790 iced tea1827 tutti-frutti1834 brown-bread ice1846 vanilla ice1846 vanille ice1846 Neapolitan ice1867 Neapolitan ice cream1868 hokey-pokey1884 strawberry ice cream1890 choc chip1903 horn1908 Tortoni1911 slider1915 choc bar1919 cone1920 Eskimo pie1921 brick1922 brickette1922 Eskimo1922 choc ice1924 cornet1926 briquette1927 gelato1932 ninety-nine1935 wafer1936 fudgicle1938 ripple1939 tub1939 vanilla1955 double dip1965 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?’ 1981 P. 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); colloquial or jocularly, a bath; hence, the action or practice of taking a bath, esp. on rising. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > [noun] > bathing > an act of bathing bain1484 dip1598 balneum1652 tub1776 bathe1827 shower1836 bogy1849 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > [noun] > bathing > vessel for bathing in laver1340 washela1375 lavatory1447 baina1492 bath-fatc1540 bathing-tub1583 batha1616 tub1776 Moab1865 bath-tub1869 bath vat1874 bogy1893 1594 H. Plat Jewell House 94 The room would be close wherin you place your bathing tub.] 1776 H. 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. 1849 Knife & Fork 11 They..have an hereditary aversion for the Saturday tub. 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. iii. 41 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 Garden 251 I must have been prior to the date of the institution of the tub. 1893 A. 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 n., tub-pair n. at Compounds 2, tub v. 4. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel with reference to qualities or attributes > [noun] > with reference to behaviour at sea > slow and clumsy tuba1618 scow1891 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels propelled by oars or poles > [noun] > rowing boat > light or racing > stout and roomy or used for practice tub-gig1836 tub1853 tub-pair1870 tub-eight1901 a1618 W. Raleigh Disc. Invention Shipping 9 in Judicious & Select Ess. (1650) In Cæsars time, the French Brittains..had very untoward Tubs in which they made Warre against him. 1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Odysses iv. 54 And now my Child at Sea is in a Tub. 1812 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. (ed. 2) I. ii. iv. 94 Here the rapid tide..seizing on the gallant tub.., hurried it forward with a velocity unparalleled in a Dutch boat, navigated by Dutchmen. 1827 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 21 398 One was four feet broader, another was as much shorter than the Victory, and they were in comparison all Tubs. 1841 J. 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’ Adventures Mr. Verdant Green x. 95 He next day..made his first essay in a ‘tub’. 1901 D. B. Hall & 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 n., tub-thumper n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > furniture > lectern or pulpit > [noun] lecternc1325 pulpitc1390 desk1449 stage1483 anabathur1623 oratorio1631 ambo1641 tub1644 chair1649 anabathrum1658 minbar1682 ambon1683 hand board1734 rostrum1755 tub-pulpita1791 lutrin1837 prayer desk1843 wood1854 praying desk1906 1644 J. Owen Duty of Pastors & People viii. 52 Must a master of a family, cease praying in his family,..for feare of being counted a Preacher in a Tub? 1684 J. Dryden Prol. Univ. Oxf. in Misc. Poems 278 Jack Presbyter shall here Erect his Throne. Knock out a Tub with Preaching once a day. 1710 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1886) II. 351 A huge Bonfire was made, and the Tub in w^ch he used to hold forth was plac'd on y^e top of the Pile. 1729 A. Pope Dunciad (new ed.) ii. 2 A gorgeous seat, that far outshone Henley's gilt Tub, or Fleckno's Irish Throne. 1891 Spectator 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 n.¹ 2, tram n.² 2. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > equipment for lowering or raising miners or material > for raising material corf1831 tub1849 skep1860 raff wheel1867 1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 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. 1859 R. 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. 1893 Athenæum 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. 1894 Heslop (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. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > pit supports yoking1653 set1830 crib1839 tub1839 wedging crib1839 cribbing1841 ring crib1849 tack1849 tymp1883 1839 [see tub-plank n. at Compounds 1a]. 1850 J. Weale Rudim. Dict. Terms Archit. iv. 474/2 Tub, a cast-iron cylinder put in the shaft instead of bricking. 1855 Orr's Circle Sci., Inorg. Nat. 237 In all cases, the foundation of a permanent tub should rest on a water-tight stratum. 1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Tub,..a casing of wood or of cast-iron sections..lining a shaft. 6. †a. On the early railways colloquially applied to an open truck or a seatless carriage. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > open wagon truck1838 tub1886 1886 H. S. Brown Autobiogr. (1887) vii. 30 We called it a ‘stand up’ and it also went by the name of ‘a tub’. 1890 Notes & Queries 7th Ser. 9 470/2 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. Obsolete. c. ? = tub-gig n. (a) at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > covered tub1889 1889 John Bull 2 Mar. 142/2 Tubs we ca' the covered carriages, tubs wasn't known in these parts. 1911 F. Harrison Autobiogr. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > extinguishing fire > [noun] > fire-fighting > a substance or apparatus for extinguishing > fire-engine fire engine1626 engine1645 water engine1667 machine1848 fire truck1855 forcing-engine1855 tub1864 appliance1865 1864 Student & Schoolmate Jan. 3 The rope was only half manned and wishing to make myself useful..I joined the party in charge of the ‘tub’. 1906 J. 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). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > picking pockets > pick pockets [verb (intransitive)] > on buses or at bus-stops to work the tubs1929 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > public service vehicle > [noun] > omnibus omnibus1829 bus1832 shillibeerc1835 stage1853 tub1929 1929 G. 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. 1933 C. E. Leach On Top of Underworld x. 141 Tub, omnibus. 1974 P. Wright Lang. Brit. Industry x. 85 Inland transport comes along with tubs for buses. 7. Nautical. See quot. 1867. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > rope for raising or lowering sails > rack for coiling topsail halyard in tub1867 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher 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 n. at Compounds 2.Couch takes this as a contraction of Cornish tubbot, -ut. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Scorpaeniformes (scorpion-fish) > [noun] > family Triglidae (gurnards) > genus Trigla > trigla hirundo (tub) tub1602 tub-fish1668 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 32 Of flat [fish there are] Brets, Turbets, Dories,..Tub, Breame &c. 1836 W. Yarrell Hist. 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. 1861 Act 24 & 25 Victoria c. 109 §4 All migratory fish of the genus salmon,..salmon,..buntling, guiniad, tubs, yellow fin, sprod, herling,..or..any other local name. 1863 Rep. 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. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 371/2 Consider the places & his wordes together, & ye shal find al his processe therin a fayre tale of a Tub. 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 576/1 Thys is a fayre tale of a tubbe tolde vs of hys electes. 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. ix. sig. L^v A tale of a tub, your tale no truthe auowth. 1631 F. Lenton Characterismi sig. F9^v Oft-times hee goes but to the next Tauerne, and then very discreetly brings her home a tale of a Tubbe. 1708 O. Dykes Moral Reflexions Eng. Prov. 57 If one talks of Chalk, another will talk of Cheese still, or tell a Tale of a Tub. 1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 102 Having entertained the Fellow with a Tale of a Tub. b. (to throw out) a tub to the whale, to create a diversion, esp. in order to escape a threatened danger. ΚΠ 1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub 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. 1730 Fog's Weekly Jrnl. 29 Aug. 1/1 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. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. x. 77 When a man talks to a lady upon such subjects,..'tis strange, if he cannot throw out a tub to the whale. 1768 Earl of Malmesbury Diaries & Corr. I. 23 We find it a mere tub to amuse the whale. 1826 J. Doyle Ess. Catholic Claims 248 Some tub for a whale of prejudice to knash its teeth against. 1912 Nation 29 June 465/2 He throws a tub to the High Church whale. c. every tub must (or let every tub) stand on its own bottom: cf. bottom n. and adj. Phrases 3. ΚΠ 1623 R. Aylett Ioseph v. 74 Such like tubs on their owne bottome stand, Nor neede the least support of others hand. 1736 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum (ed. 2) (at cited word) Every Tub must stand upon it's own Bottom. 1773 R. Graves Spiritual Quixote I. iv. viii. 232 [Mrs. Tantrum]..concluded, in her own way, that ‘every tub must stand upon its own bottom’. 1885 ‘H. Conway’ Family Affair III. vi. 88 I think it's better to let every tub stand on its own bottom. 1993 H. N. Thomas Spirits in Dark (1994) xviii. 214 I know the Old Testament tell us that the sins o' the fathers get visited on the children, but yo' mustn' have a hand in that. Let ‘every tub must sit 'pon its own bottom.’ Compounds C1. a. General attributive. tub-bath n. ΚΠ 1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 850 Each patient receives a tub-bath of twenty minutes at 70° every third hour. tub-boat n. ΚΠ 1883 Brit. Q. Rev. July 108 Crossing the narrow water-way in one of the heavy tub-boats of the country. tub-ear n. (ear n.¹ 7). ΚΠ 1533 MS. Rawl. D. 776 lf. 170 For ij Tubb Eares of woode sett on the same tubbe. tub-eight n. (eight n. 2b). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels propelled by oars or poles > [noun] > rowing boat > light or racing > stout and roomy or used for practice tub-gig1836 tub1853 tub-pair1870 tub-eight1901 1901 Daily 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. tub-end n. ΚΠ 1542 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 30 Two trowes, and a bowtyn ton, and a tube ende. tub-hoop n. (in quot. transferred). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [noun] > contrivance for expanding skirts > hoop hoop1548 farthingale1552 vardingale1552 roundabouta1555 ferdegewa1556 verdugal1558 guard-infante1670 crinoline1847 tub-hoop1892 1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 24 Oct. 2/3 Hoops, or (as they were called in Queen Anne's time, when they reached their maximum proportions) tub~hoops. tub-kennel n. ΚΠ 1908 T. W. Rhys Davids Early Buddhism i. 7 When he [Diogenes] lived, like a dog, in his tub~kennel. tub-life n. ΚΠ 1857 J. Ruskin Polit. Econ. Art i. 2 People who..lived in tubs, and used gravely to maintain the superiority of tub-life to town-life. tub-plank n. ΚΠ 1839 A. Ure 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. tub-plant n. tub-pulpit n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > furniture > lectern or pulpit > [noun] lecternc1325 pulpitc1390 desk1449 stage1483 anabathur1623 oratorio1631 ambo1641 tub1644 chair1649 anabathrum1658 minbar1682 ambon1683 hand board1734 rostrum1755 tub-pulpita1791 lutrin1837 prayer desk1843 wood1854 praying desk1906 a1791 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) VIII. 332 Let there be no..tub-pulpit, but a square projection, with a long seat behind. tub-timber n. ΚΠ 1591 in F. Collins Wills & Admin. Knaresborough Court Rolls (1902) I. 173 All the tubbe tymber thatt I have hewene. tub-washing n. ΚΠ 1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 133 Tub-washing is sometimes more convenient for small flocks. b. Objective. (a) tub-buyer n. tub-carrier n. ΚΠ 1899 S. Baring-Gould Bk. of West II. 275 The ‘tub-carriers’, who conveyed the kegs on their backs. tub-filler n. ΚΠ 1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 176 A man, designated ‘tub-filler’, with a ladle of copper, was employed in filling a hogshead with chopped blubber. tub-maker n. (b) (In sense 4.) tub-lecture n. ΚΠ 1708 O. Dykes Moral Reflexions Eng. Prov. 56 From a Pulpit-Harangue, to a Tub-Lecture of extemporary Zeal. tub-meeter n. ΚΠ 1706 in H. Playford Wit & Mirth (new ed.) IV. 42 The Tories, and the Tubmeeters, That roosted near Leaden-Hall. tub-minister n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > one who makes a speech or speeches ditera1387 fair speakera1398 speakerc1400 pronouncer?a1425 orator?a1439 oratrice1565 oratress1587 rhetor1588 oratrix?1592 tongue-man1594 tonguesman1596 public speaker1646 holder-forth1661 tub-minister1662 spokesman1663 addresser1665 tub-drubbera1704 speech-maker1710 speecher1762 orationer1765 speechifiera1777 mob-orator1814 perorator1827 elocutionist1847 tub-orator1849 spokester1850 patterer1851 platformer1851 oratist1860 stem-winder1875 addressor1897 pep talker1925 1662 J. Gauden in R. Hooker Wks. Ep. Ded. sig. A3^v Those Club-masters and Tub-ministers, who sought..to overthrow the ancient and goodly Fabrick of this Church and Kingdom. tub-orator n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > one who makes a speech or speeches ditera1387 fair speakera1398 speakerc1400 pronouncer?a1425 orator?a1439 oratrice1565 oratress1587 rhetor1588 oratrix?1592 tongue-man1594 tonguesman1596 public speaker1646 holder-forth1661 tub-minister1662 spokesman1663 addresser1665 tub-drubbera1704 speech-maker1710 speecher1762 orationer1765 speechifiera1777 mob-orator1814 perorator1827 elocutionist1847 tub-orator1849 spokester1850 patterer1851 platformer1851 oratist1860 stem-winder1875 addressor1897 pep talker1925 1849 C. Brontë Shirley I. viii. 181 ‘The Rev. Moses Barraclough: t' tub orator’... ‘Ah!’ said the Rector..‘He's a tailor by trade’. c. tub-bellied adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [adjective] > having a round or protuberant belly round-barrelled1682 tub-bellied1830 1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 454 Before the South Down sheep were improved, they were very flat on the ribs, or tub bellied. tub-brained adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > narrow-mindedness > [adjective] narrowed1599 narrow-minded1611 narrow1612 small1619 narrow1622 tub-brained1634 narrow-souled1641 narrow-spirited1645 narrow-compassed1647 illiberal1649 cat-witted1672 stingy1694 little-minded1707 straitened1712 unenlarged1741 contracted1765 one-eyed1779 unliberalized1793 nippit1808 small-minded1811 narrow-brained1835 narrow visioned1853 thin-minded1862 narrow-gauge1872 one-track1900 narrow-gutted1903 tunnel-visioned1968 1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect To Rdr. sig. A3 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. tub-coopering adj. ΚΠ 1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor xi, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. I. 307 The deil's in the pedling tub-coopering carle! tub-keeping adj. ΚΠ 1900 Speaker 10 Feb. 506/1 The tub-keeping philosopher..with the Psalmist crying ‘All men are liars’. tub-like adj. ΚΠ 1867 Morning Star 12 Apr. The miserable pompes à incendies that do duty in their own streets [Paris]..these weak tublike structures. 1895 W. Wright Palmyra & Zenobia xxix. 371 The tublike turban of the Druzes. tub-shaped adj. ΚΠ 1888 F. G. Lee in Archaeologia 51 363 A circular tub-shaped font. C2. See also tubman n., tub-preacher n., tub-thumper n., etc. tub-bass n. a bass string instrument made from a tub. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [noun] > double-bass > made from tub tub-bass1958 wash-tub1968 1958 P. 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. tub-butter n. butter packed in tubs for keeping or export. ΚΠ 1829 S. Shaw Hist. Staffs. Potteries iv. 105 The common people of the district at the present day, call Irish Tub Butter, Pot Butter. tub-camphor n. camphor imported in tubs (from Japan). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > extracted or refined oil > [noun] > camphor camphor1313 Sumatra camphora1760 Borneo camphora1811 Malay camphor1837 turpentine camphor1857 tub-camphor1880 Japan camphor1882 Japanese camphor- the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > medicine composed of a plant > [noun] > general plant-derived medicines savineOE liquoricec1275 verjuice1302 sandragon1334 sugar roset1363 acaciaa1398 agnus castusa1398 sebestenc1400 socotrine aloesa1425 tapsimelc1425 valencec1425 aconitum?a1450 hypericum1471 cassia1543 guaiacum1553 guaiac1558 butcher's broom1578 solanum1578 liquorice-stick1580 symphonia1597 tabasheer1598 diascord1605 orange-bead1626 oxymel of squills1654 Japonic earth1673 terebinthina1693 terebinthinate1696 pareira brava1698 rhabarbarate1716 Japan earth1718 buglossate1725 squill1725 phytolacca1730 nettle juice1747 xanthoxyloïn1767 mustard whey1769 Jesuits' drops1783 digitalis1785 arnica1788 mel-rose1790 gallic acid1791 valerian1794 sacred elixir1797 drosera1801 Spanish juice1803 mudar1819 sabadilla1821 parillin1825 mudarin1829 salicin1830 sang1843 peppermint camphor1854 pareira1855 savanilla1856 euonymin1862 menthol1862 phytolaccin1864 alstonia1868 agoniadin1870 guimauve1870 gelsemium1875 iridin1879 hazeline1880 tub-camphor1880 echinacea1887 jacaranda1887 hamamelin1890 quillain1890 vieirin1893 thiolin1894 mentha camphor1902 hamamelis1910 phytohaemagglutinin1949 adaptogen1966 1880 Spons' 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. tub-cart n. = tub-gig n. (a). ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > with seats facing each other > two-wheeled tub-gig1836 governess car1883 governess cart1884 tub-cart1906 1906 Daily Chron. 26 Sept. 4/4 Three little girls..clambering and pushing their way into the tub-cart. tub-chair n. a deep semicircular chair resembling a tub. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > other chairs farthingale chair1552 side chair1582 high chair1609 scroll chair1614 Turkey chair1683 curule chair1695 reading chair1745 rush-bottom1754 conversation-chair1793 Windsor tub1800 Trafalgar chair1808 beehive-chair1816 nursing chair1826 Hitchcockc1828 toilet seat1829 kangaroo1834 prie-dieu1838 tub-chair1839 barrel-chair1850 Cromwell chair1868 office chair1874 swivel-chair1885 steamer-chair1886 suggan chair1888 lawn chair1895 saddle seat1895 Bombay chair1896 veranda-chair1902 X chair1904 Yorkshire chair1906 three legs and a swinger1916 saddlebag1919 riempie stool1933 gaspipe chair1934 slipper chair1938 Eames chair1946 contour chair1948 sling-back1948 sling chair1957 booster chair1960 booster seat1967 beanbag1969 sack chair1970 papasan1980 Muskoka chair1987 1839 J. W. Carlyle Let. to Mrs. Welsh in Lett. 7 Apr. (1903) I. 76 Carlyle in his grey plaid suit, and his tub-chair. 1847 J. W. Carlyle Lett. (1883) II. 20 In a tub-chair—a little live bundle of flannel shawls. tub-dress n. a dress of washing material: cf. tub-frock n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > dress, robe, or gown > types of > made of specific material farandine1672 tabby1726 satin1730 lutestring1756 silk1793 muslinc1794 zephyrine1820 merino1839 mousseline1847 moire1851 velvet1851 tarlatan1852 velveteen1873 tussore1884 paper dress1886 Gloria1895 Tibet1900 tub-dress1909 tub-frock1909 1909 Public Ledger (Philadelphia) 24 June 5/1 (advt.) Women's and Misses' Stylish Tub Dresses. tub-drubber n. = tub-thumper n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > one who makes a speech or speeches ditera1387 fair speakera1398 speakerc1400 pronouncer?a1425 orator?a1439 oratrice1565 oratress1587 rhetor1588 oratrix?1592 tongue-man1594 tonguesman1596 public speaker1646 holder-forth1661 tub-minister1662 spokesman1663 addresser1665 tub-drubbera1704 speech-maker1710 speecher1762 orationer1765 speechifiera1777 mob-orator1814 perorator1827 elocutionist1847 tub-orator1849 spokester1850 patterer1851 platformer1851 oratist1860 stem-winder1875 addressor1897 pep talker1925 a1704 T. Brown To Young Lawyer in 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. tub-engine n. a contrivance for raising water by means of a chain of tubs or the like. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > for raising water well bucket1477 flail?a1500 kettle-mill1570 scoop1580 water engine1611 chain-pumpa1618 cochlea1648 water-screw1648 engine1652 bucket-fountain1663 chain1682 noria1696 tub-engine1702 tub-gin1702 well-pole1727 screw engine1729 rag1747 rag pump1747 swape1773 picotah1780 water balance1800 ram1801 well sweep1818 shadoof1836 hydraulic belt1856 water carrier1875 bailer1883 trip-bucket1926 1702 T. Savery Miner's Friend 55 Your Tub-Engines, or Chain-Pumps, may draw forth the Water. Categories » tub-fake n. (fake n.¹) the coiled tow-line in the line-tub of a whale-boat ( Cent. Dict. 1891 cites J. W. Collins). † tub-fast n. Obsolete abstinence during treatment in the sweating-tub: cf. 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > fasting > [noun] > a fast > fast during medical treatment tub-fasta1616 a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iv. iii. 88 Bring downe Rose-cheekt youth to the Tubfast [1623, 1632 Fubfast, amendment proposed by Warburton], and the Diet. View more context for this quotation tub-fish n. = sense 8. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Scorpaeniformes (scorpion-fish) > [noun] > family Triglidae (gurnards) > genus Trigla > trigla hirundo (tub) tub1602 tub-fish1668 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. v. §3. 136 Tub-fish, Piper. 1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 233 The Red Gurnard..agrees in its general appearance with the tub fish. 1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 304 The Tub-fish, T[rigla] hirundo, is of frequent occurrence on the west coast of Scotland. tub-frock n. = tub-dress n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > dress, robe, or gown > types of > made of specific material farandine1672 tabby1726 satin1730 lutestring1756 silk1793 muslinc1794 zephyrine1820 merino1839 mousseline1847 moire1851 velvet1851 tarlatan1852 velveteen1873 tussore1884 paper dress1886 Gloria1895 Tibet1900 tub-dress1909 tub-frock1909 1909 Westm. Gaz. 1 Feb. 5/2 What we have for some time now called ‘tub frocks’ are certainly the best for the South. tub garden n. an area containing plants grown in tubs. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > [noun] > other types of garden grounda1500 knot-garden1519 back-garden1535 summer garden1589 spring garden1612 spring gardena1625 water gardena1626 walled gardena1631 wildernessa1644 window garden1649 botanic garden1662 Hanging Gardens1705 winter garden1736 cottage garden1765 Vauxhall1770 English garden1771 wall garden1780 chinampa1787 moat garden1826 gardenesque1832 sunk garden1835 roof garden1844 weedery1847 wild garden1852 rootery1855 beer-garden1863 Japanese garden1863 bog-garden1883 Italian garden1883 community garden1884 sink garden1894 trough garden1935 sand garden1936 Zen garden1937 hydroponicum1938 tub garden1974 rain garden1994 1974 N. 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. tub-gardening n. cultivation of plants or trees in tubs. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > [noun] > types of gardening curtilagec1430 kitchen gardening?1700 landscape-gardeninga1763 picturesque gardeninga1763 window gardening1801 landscape architecture1840 rock gardening1840 market gardening1852 water gardening1870 wild gardening1870 olericulture1886 market work1887 trucking1897 tub-gardening1904 landscaping1930 greenswardsmanship1936 godwottery1937 sand gardening1960 xeriscaping1987 1904 Daily News 9 Aug. 5 A most fascinating article, entitled ‘Tub-Gardening’. tub-gig n. (a) a deep low-hung gig with rounded corners and seats facing inwards; a governess car; (b) = tub-pair n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels propelled by oars or poles > [noun] > rowing boat > light or racing > stout and roomy or used for practice tub-gig1836 tub1853 tub-pair1870 tub-eight1901 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > with seats facing each other > two-wheeled tub-gig1836 governess car1883 governess cart1884 tub-cart1906 1836 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. 1884 J. A. Froude T. Carlyle: Life in London I. xi. 316 The brothers went in a steamer from Liverpool to Bangor, and thence to Llanberis, again in a ‘tub-gig’, or Welsh car. 1888 W. B. Woodgate Boating (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 72 Lessons in a tub-gig are the best remedies for this fault. tub-gin n. = tub-engine n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > for raising water well bucket1477 flail?a1500 kettle-mill1570 scoop1580 water engine1611 chain-pumpa1618 cochlea1648 water-screw1648 engine1652 bucket-fountain1663 chain1682 noria1696 tub-engine1702 tub-gin1702 well-pole1727 screw engine1729 rag1747 rag pump1747 swape1773 picotah1780 water balance1800 ram1801 well sweep1818 shadoof1836 hydraulic belt1856 water carrier1875 bailer1883 trip-bucket1926 1702 T. Savery Miner's Friend 21 As easily learn'd as their driving of a Horse in a Tub-Gin. 1702 T. Savery Miner's Friend 57 My Engine..will clear an old work..as readily as your Tub-Gins or Chain-Pumps. † tub-hunter n. Obsolete a parasite, a sponger. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [noun] > servile flatterer > parasite clienta1393 lick-dishc1440 maunche present1440 scambler?a1513 smell-feast1519 parasite1539 hanger-on1549 parasitaster1552 waiter at the table1552 lick-trencher1571 hang-by1579 shadow1579 trencher-fly1590 trencher-friend1590 fawnguest1592 pot-hunter1592 lick-spigot1599 trencherman1599 shark1600 tub-hunter1600 zany1601 lick-box1611 by-hangera1626 cosherer1634 shirk1639 panlicker1641 clientelary1655 tantony1659 led friend1672 sponger1677 fetcher and carrier1751 myrmidon1800 trencher-licker1814 onhanger1821 tag-tail1835 sponge1838 lick-ladle1849 lick-platter1853 sucker1856 freeloader1933 bludger1938 ligger1977 joyrider1990 1600 Wisdome Doctor Dodypoll iii. sig. D3^v You are a sweet smell-feast, Doctor that I see, Ile [have] no such tub-hunters vse my house. tub-loader n. Coal Mining see quot. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > coal-miner > who works with trams, tubs, etc. coal putter1708 foal1770 onsetter1789 putter1812 headsman1813 trapper1815 thruster1825 trammer1839 train boy1852 tram1856 hanger-on1858 tipper1861 hooker-on?1881 jiggerer?1881 hitcher1890 tub-loader1891 haulier1892 tilter1892 unhooker1892 flatter1894 jagger1900 thrutcher1901 tram-boy1904 filler1921 1891 Labour 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. tub-oar n. the oar next the line-tub in a whale-boat. ΚΠ 1834 N. Amer. Mag. July 170 The boatsteerer..seized hold of the line, and, in a twinkling, caught a turn around the loggerhead, to enable the man at the tub oar to bend on another line. tub-oarsman n. one who attends to the running of the line when in use ( Cent. Dict. 1891). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > whaling and seal-hunting > whaling > whale-hunter > [noun] > helper tonguer1836 tub-oarsman1845 1845 E. J. Wakefield Adventure in 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. tub-pair n. a pair-oared practice boat (College slang). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels propelled by oars or poles > [noun] > rowing boat > light or racing > stout and roomy or used for practice tub-gig1836 tub1853 tub-pair1870 tub-eight1901 1870 Daily 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. tub-plot n. cf. Meal-tub Plot n. at meal-tub n. ΚΠ 1801 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) III. 455 The poor arts of tub-plots, &c. were repeated till the designs of the party became suspected. tub-race n. a race in which the competitors use tubs instead of boats. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > boat racing or race > [noun] > types of rowing race torpid1838 bumping race1842 row-over1866 sculls1878 May1879 Lents1886 fours1891 getting-on race1892 row-off1893 re-row1901 tub-race1903 bumper1906 bump1923 bumps race1927 head race1953 1903 Sir W. J. Farrar in Mem. Abp. Temple (1906) I. vi. 86 I don't think Temple joined in the attempted tub-race. tub-saw n. a cylindrical saw. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > saw > [noun] > other saws handsaw1399 rug-saw1582 frame saw1633 nocksaw1659 bow-saw1678 lock saw1688 stadda1688 wire saw1688 panel saw1754 keyhole saw1761 web saw1799 table saw1832 rack saw1846 scroll-saw1851 fretsaw1865 back saw1874 foxtail-saw1874 tub-saw1874 gullet-saw1875 Swede saw1934 1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 672/1 Variously called a tub-saw, drum-saw, barrel-saw. tub-size v. (transitive) to size (paper) in a tub or vat; to hand-size, as distinguished from engine-size. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > paper-making > make paper [verb (transitive)] > specific processes planish1361 calender1513 couch1751 watermarkc1800 part1809 satin1839 re-reel1860 to break in1865 hot press1875 tub-size1880 reslush1938 1880 J. Dunbar Pract. Papermaker 55 Tub-sizing, preparation of the gelatine. 1887 Harper'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. tub-sized adj. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > paper > [adjective] > processed or finished in specific way animal-sized1860 calendered1878 Willesden1879 machine-finished1892 mould-made1895 friction-glazed1907 tub-sized?1912 machine-glazed1914 ?1912 Printing Papers (Spalding & Hodge) ii. 1 Animal Tub-sized, or A.T.S., is a term employed to denote the more costly method of passing the manufactured sheet through a bath or ‘tub’ of animal size. 1967 E. 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. tub-skirt n. cf. tub-dress n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > clothing for lower body > skirt > types of > made from specific material > other futah1738 petticoat trousers1749 pareu1769 sisi1810 petticoat1814 grass skirt1875 tub-skirt1909 piupiu1938 cuddle skirt1958 1909 Public Ledger (Philadelphia) 24 June 7/7 (advt.) ‘Tub’ Skirts..Nice quality linen in white, tan & blue. tub-sugar n. sugar packed in chests and covered with fine clay ( Cent. Dict. 1891). tub-suit n. = tub-skirt n. † tub-tail n. Obsolete a farthingale or hooped skirt; one who wears this (contemptuous). ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > unchaste behaviour of woman > unchaste or loose woman queanOE whorec1175 malkinc1275 wenchelc1300 ribalda1350 strumpeta1350 wench1362 filtha1375 parnelc1390 sinner14.. callet1415 slut?c1425 tickle-tailc1430 harlot?a1475 mignote1489 kittock?a1500 mulea1513 trulla1516 trully?1515 danta1529 miswoman1528 stewed whore1532 Tib1533 unchaghe1534 flag1535 Katy1535 jillet1541 yaud1545 housewife1546 trinkletc1550 whippet1550 Canace1551 filthy1553 Jezebel1558 kittyc1560 loonc1560 laced mutton1563 nymph1563 limmer1566 tomboy1566 Marian1567 mort1567 cockatrice1568 franion1571 blowze1573 rannell1573 rig1575 Kita1577 poplet1577 light-skirts1578 pucelle1578 harlotry1584 light o' lovea1586 driggle-draggle1588 wagtail1592 tub-tail1595 flirt-gill1597 minx1598 hilding1599 short-heels1599 bona-roba1600 flirt1600 Hiren1600 light-heels1602 roba1602 baggage1603 cousin1604 fricatrice1607 rumbelow1611 amorosa1615 jaya1616 open-taila1618 succubus1622 snaphancea1625 flap1631 buttered bun1638 puffkin1639 vizard1652 fallen woman1659 tomrigg1662 cunt1663 quaedama1670 jilt1672 crack1677 grass-girl1691 sporting girl1694 sportswoman1705 mobbed hood1707 brim1736 trollop1742 trub1746 demi-rep1749 gillyflower1757 lady of easy virtue1766 mot1773 chicken1782 gammerstang1788 buer1807 scarlet woman1816 blowen1819 fie-fie1820 shickster?1834 streel1842 charver1846 trolly1854 bad girl1855 amateur1862 anonyma1862 demi-virgin1864 pickup1871 chippy1885 wish-wife1886 tart1887 tartleta1890 flossy1893 fly girl1893 demi-mondaine1894 floozy1899 slattern1899 scrub1900 demi-vierge1908 cake1909 coozie1912 muff1914 tarty1918 yes-girl1920 radge1923 bike1945 puta1948 messer1951 cooze1955 jamette1965 skeezer1986 slutbag1987 chickenhead1988 ho1988 1595 Pleasant Quippes for Vpstart Gentle-women sig. B^v Therefore tub-tailes all may rue, That they came from so vile a crue. tub-trimmer n. ? a cooper; in quot. figurative. ΚΠ 1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Hay any Worke for Cooper (title page) An vnskilfull and a deceytfull tubtrimmer. tub-wheel n. (a) the wheel of a colliery ‘tub’; (b) a horizontal waterwheel with spiral floats; = danaide n.; (c) a rotating drum in which hides are washed ( Funk's Stand. Dict. 1895). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > equipment for lowering or raising miners or material > for raising material > part of sole-tree1653 spending1797 tub-wheel1815 rider1881 society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > driven by water waterwheel1408 flood-wheel1515 breast wheel1744 overshot1760 undershot wheel1760 breast-shot1775 bucket-wheel1797 tub-wheel1815 flutter-wheel1817 danaide1825 wheel1842 reaction waterwheel1847 reaction wheel1852 tide-wheel1864 hurdy-gurdy1868 stream-wheel1875 paddle wheela1884 Pelton1885 turbine-pump1900 1815–16 Niles' Weekly Reg. 9 Suppl. 182/2 Many mill owners have laid aside their tub wheels. 1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 7 The small diameter of the tub wheels. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Tub-wheel, a peculiar kind of wheel to a water-mill. tub-woman n. a woman who carries a tub or tubs; also a woman suggesting a tub in figure. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [noun] > fat or plump shape or physique > person having > woman roil1533 boss1578 blowze1594 fustilarian1600 fustilugs1607 tub-woman1660 fuss1670 fussock1699 bundlea1825 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > other manual or industrial workers > [noun] > porter > types of wine-porter1580 street porter1606 tackle-house porter1606 tackle-porter1607 sealed porter1631 ticket-porter1646 tub-woman1660 keep-door1682 Suisse1763 bamboo-coolie1800 hop-porter1812 plyer1826 night porter1841 fellowship1864 hall-porter1883 mobber1892 redcap1903 badgeman1904 bummaree1954 1660 Col. J. Okie's Lament. (single sheet) A Fat Tub-woman was my Goddesse great of War. 1727 ‘S. Brunt’ Voy. to Cacklogallinia 34 They carried two Pails a-piece with a Yoke, like our Tub-women. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2022). tubn.² Brit. /tʌb/, U.S. /təb/ Etymology: Abbreviation of tubular adj. and n. Cycling colloquial. = tubular tyre at tubular adj. and n. Additions a. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > wheel > rubber or pneumatic tyre rubber1875 tyre1875 tirea1877 pneumatic1890 cushion1891 cushion-tire1891 pneu1891 solid tyre1891 balloon tyre1899 single-tube1904 tubular tyre1908 shoe1917 solid1919 tubular1924 air wheel1930 skin1954 tub1978 1978 R. Watson & M. Gray Penguin Bk. 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’. 1987 Cycling 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2022). tubv. Brit. /tʌb/, U.S. /təb/ Etymology: < tub n.¹ 1. a. transitive. To bathe or wash in a tub or bath. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > wash one's body or part of it [verb (transitive)] > bathe bathec1000 bain1398 embain1593 tub1612 bath1660 1612 B. Jonson Alchemist iv. iii. sig. I4 In your Bathada, You shall be sok'd, and strok'd, and tub'd, and rub'd. View more context for this quotation 1883 G. H. Boughton in Harper's Mag. Apr. 700/1 She was ‘tubbing’ the two babies. b. intransitive. To wash oneself in a tub or bath; to take a tub or bath, esp. on rising. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > wash oneself [verb (intransitive)] > bathe bathec1000 washa1382 bain1483 lave1701 tub1867 bogy1893 tosh1905 1867 Pall Mall Gaz. 18 May 10/2 Gentlemen who didn't tub of a morning. 1885 C. H. Eden George Donnington I. ii. 28 It was necessary..to tub and dress by the feeble flame of a single candle. 2. transitive. To line (a pit-shaft) with a watertight 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. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > mining > mine [verb (transitive)] > line pit-shaft with casing tub1812 1812 J. Hodgson in J. Raine Mem. J. Hodgson (1857) I. 94 The low~main coal is kept perfectly dry by tubbing the watery seams with a circular casing of oak wood. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 972 When several fathoms of the strata must be tubbed, in order to stop up the water-flow. 1862 Chambers's 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. 1865 W. S. Jevons Coal Quest. (1866) 68 When this flood of water..had been ‘tubbed back’. 1881 J. Sands Sketches Tranent i. 17 The Coal Company offered to ‘tub’ or line the faulty pit with iron plates. 1884 tr. H. Lotze Logic viii. 359 Men who are tubbing a well with masonry. 3. a. To put or pack in a tub; to plant in a tub. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > [verb (transitive)] > pot pot1664 circumpose1693 repot1754 tub1828 the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > into or as into other specific receptacles sackc1405 pokea1425 pipe1465 barrel1466 cask1562 bag1570 vessel1577 basket1582 crock1594 cade1599 maund1604 impoke1611 incask1611 inflask1611 insatchel1611 desk1615 pot1626 cooper1746 kit1769 vat1784 pannier1804 vial1805 flask1855 tub1889 ampoule1946 1828 T. 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. 1889 Daily 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. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with brick > work with bricks [verb (transitive)] > soak bricks before laying tub1913 1913 Daily News 31 Mar. 6 The walls..were built in cement mortar and the bricks properly tubbed. 4. transitive and intransitive. To coach (oarsmen) in a ‘tub’; to practise rowing in a ‘tub’ (tub n.¹ 3). Rowing slang. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > boat racing or race > take part in boat racing or race [verb (intransitive)] > actions in rowing race > coach or practise tub1882 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > boat racing or race > race boats [verb (transitive)] > row a race > coach tub1882 1882 Society 18 Nov. 7/2 ‘Tubbing’ vigorously, with the..intention of putting on a boat for the Lent races. 1883 in Standard 17 Jan. 3/7 An hour and a half was then spent in tubbing the men. 1887 Daily News 28 Jan. 3/6 Proceedings commenced..by Mr. Orde tubbing the [men] in the gig pair. Derivatives tubbed adj. /tʌbd/ ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preserving or pickling > [adjective] conditec1420 well-cured?a1425 confite1484 pickled1552 confect1558 soused1568 preserved1569 comfited1599 condited1626 confected1808 processed1876 tubbed1882 the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > [adjective] > in or as in specific receptacles barrelled1494 casked1624 pocketed1647 tunned1672 intubed1688 kitted1725 basined1745 canistered1843 pottled1845 carboyed1855 tubbed1882 sacked1895 pouched1905 cartoned1921 cupped1929 ampouled1969 slipcased1969 1882 G. A. Sala Amer. Revisited (1885) 250 Our pickled or ‘tubbed’ pork. 1890 J. Hatton By Order of Czar iii. iii A courtyard..gay with tubbed laurel and tented tables. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1392n.²1978v.1612
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